{"id":140014,"date":"2022-05-31T11:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/astronomers-demonstrate-how-using-the-cloud-can-rev-up-the-rate-of-discovery-for-asteroids"},"modified":"2022-05-31T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:03:03","slug":"astronomers-demonstrate-how-using-the-cloud-can-rev-up-the-rate-of-discovery-for-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/astronomers-demonstrate-how-using-the-cloud-can-rev-up-the-rate-of-discovery-for-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers demonstrate how using the cloud can rev up the rate of discovery for asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_GNxx_1ZgWE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have used a cloud-based technique pioneered at the University of Washington to identify and track asteroids in bunches of a hundred or more. Their achievement could dramatically accelerate the quest to find potentially threatening space rocks.<\/p>\n<p>The technique makes use of a cloud-based, open-source analysis platform known as <a href=\"https:\/\/b612foundation.org\/asteroid-decision-analysis-mapping-adam-project-update\/\">Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping<\/a>, or ADAM; plus a recently developed algorithm called <a href=\"https:\/\/escience.washington.edu\/how-to-discover-asteroids-with-algorithms\/\">Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery<\/a>, or THOR. The THOR algorithm was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/dirac.astro.washington.edu\/person\/joachim-moeyens\/\">Joachim Moeyens<\/a>, an Asteroid Institute Fellow at UW; and <a href=\"https:\/\/dirac.astro.washington.edu\/person\/mario-juric\/\">Mario Juric<\/a>, director of UW\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dirac.astro.washington.edu\/\">DiRAC Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Teaming up ADAM and THOR may sound like a cross between a Bible story and a Marvel comic, but this dynamic duo\u2019s superpower is strictly scientific: When ADAM runs the THOR algorithm, the software can determine the orbits of asteroids, even previously unidentified asteroids, by sifting through any large database of astronomical observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have used a cloud-based technique pioneered at the University of Washington to identify and track asteroids in bunches of a hundred or more. Their achievement could dramatically accelerate the quest to find potentially threatening space rocks. The technique makes use of a cloud-based, open-source analysis platform known as Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}