{"id":5399,"date":"2013-11-22T21:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T21:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2013-11-22T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T21:22:49","slug":"planetary-resources-and-nasa-partnering-to-crowdsource-asteroid-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5399","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Resources and NASA partnering to crowdsource asteroid detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Planetary Resources<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;The Asteroid Mining Company&#8221; has announced a partnership with NASA<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0to design and implement crowdsourcing algorithm challenges in the effort to detect, track and characterize near-Earth objects (NEOs).\u00a0 All data compiled and used for these challenges will be open-sourced and publicly available.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/2013\/11\/planetary-resources-partners-with-nasa-to-crowdsource-asteroid-detection\/\" target=\"_d\">Planetary Resources Partners with NASA to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection &#8211; PRI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/nasa-planetary-resources-partner-asteroid-hunting-contests-2D11638181\" target=\"_d\">NASA and Planetary Resources partner on asteroid-hunting contests &#8211; NBC News.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last summer PRI raised over $1.5M in a Kickstarter campaign to fund outreach programs, including a collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\" target=\"_blank\">Zooniverse<\/a> citizen science organization to create <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zooniverse.org\/2013\/06\/27\/anyone-fancy-an-asteroid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asteroid Zoo<\/a>. In Asteroid Zoo, volunteers via the web will scan a data set of over 3 million images obtained with the\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpl.arizona.edu\/css\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catalina Sky Survey<\/a>\u00a0to find and characterize near-earth objects.<\/p>\n<p>The NASA partnership will build on this work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lindley Johnson, Program Executive of NASA\u2019s near Earth object observation program, said, \u201cThis partnership uses NASA resources in innovative ways and takes advantage of public expertise to improve identification of potential threats to our planet.\u00a0 This opportunity is one of many efforts we\u2019re undertaking as part of our asteroid initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, there are approximately\u00a0620,000 asteroids that are tracked in our Solar System.\u00a0\u00a0This number represents less than one percent\u00a0of\u00a0the estimated objects that orbit the Sun.\u00a0 \u201cWhile improving the algorithms to detect NEOs helps gain more data, additional surveys, telescopes and capability put to the search will also assist in completing the task of compiling a comprehensive open-sourced catalog,\u201d continued Lewicki.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planetary Resources\u00a0&#8220;The Asteroid Mining Company&#8221; has announced a partnership with NASA \u00a0to design and implement crowdsourcing algorithm challenges in the effort to detect, track and characterize near-Earth objects (NEOs).\u00a0 All data compiled and used for these challenges will be open-sourced and publicly available. Planetary Resources Partners with NASA to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection &#8211; PRI NASA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planetary Resources and NASA partnering to crowdsource asteroid detection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1p5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6842,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6842","url_meta":{"origin":5399,"position":0},"title":"NASA&#8217;s Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A message from Planetary Resources: Be an Asteroid Hunter in NASA's First Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest Series NASA\u2019s Asteroid Data Hunter contest series will offer $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids. 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