{"id":140021,"date":"2022-05-31T19:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/uw-developed-cloud-based-astrodynamics-platform-to-discover-and-track-asteroids"},"modified":"2022-05-31T19:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:22:22","slug":"uw-developed-cloud-based-astrodynamics-platform-to-discover-and-track-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/uw-developed-cloud-based-astrodynamics-platform-to-discover-and-track-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"UW-developed, cloud-based astrodynamics platform to discover and track 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>A novel algorithm developed by University of Washington researchers to discover asteroids in the solar system has proved its mettle. The first candidate asteroids identified by the algorithm \u2014 known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/moeyensj\/thor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THOR<\/a> \u2014 have been confirmed by the International Astronomical Union\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/minorplanetcenter.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minor Planet Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Asteroid Institute, a program of <a href=\"https:\/\/b612foundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B612 Foundation<\/a>, has been running THOR on its cloud-based astrodynamics platform \u2014 Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping, or ADAM \u2014 to identify and track asteroids. With confirmation of these new asteroids by the Minor Planet Center and their addition to its registry, researchers using the Asteroid Institute\u2019s resources can submit thousands of additional new discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA comprehensive map of the solar system gives astronomers critical insights both for science and planetary defense,\u201d said Matthew Holman, dynamicist and search algorithm expert at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian and the former director of the Minor Planet Center. \u201cTracklet-less algorithms such as THOR greatly expand the kinds of datasets astronomers can use in building such a map.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel algorithm developed by University of Washington researchers to discover asteroids in the solar system has proved its mettle. The first candidate asteroids identified by the algorithm \u2014 known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR \u2014 have been confirmed by the International Astronomical Union\u2019s Minor Planet Center. The Asteroid Institute, a program of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140021","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\/140021","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}