{"id":8587,"date":"2014-08-15T17:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8587"},"modified":"2014-08-15T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T21:11:35","slug":"nasas-asteroid-grand-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8587","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Asteroid Grand Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">topcoder<\/a>\u00a0are sponsoring the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoder.com\/asteroids\/\" target=\"_d\">Asteroid Grand Challenge:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Asteroid Grand Challenge Series will be comprised of a\u00a0series\u00a0of topcoder challenges\u00a0to get more people from around the planet\u00a0involved in finding all asteroid threats to human populations and figuring out what to do about them. In an increasingly connected world, NASA recognizes the value of the public as a partner in addressing some of the country\u2019s most pressing challenges.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For example, there is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoder.com\/asteroids\/asteroiddatahunter\/\" target=\"_d\">AsteroidDataHunter<\/a>\u00a0challenge, which<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>tasks competitors to develop significantly improved algorithms to identify asteroids in images from ground-based telescopes. The winning solution must increase the detection sensitivity, minimize the number of false positives, ignore imperfections in the data, and run effectively on all computers &#8211;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This video explains the basics of the Asteroid Grand Challenge:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xki5Q_LRfeg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and topcoder\u00a0are sponsoring the\u00a0Asteroid Grand Challenge: The Asteroid Grand Challenge Series will be comprised of a\u00a0series\u00a0of topcoder challenges\u00a0to get more people from around the planet\u00a0involved in finding all asteroid threats to human populations and figuring out what to do about them. In an increasingly connected world, NASA recognizes the value of the public as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA&#8217;s Asteroid Grand Challenge<\/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":[75,28,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-software","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2ev","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6842,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6842","url_meta":{"origin":8587,"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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