The HelioLinc3D algorithm was tested on data from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a NASA-funded asteroid impact early warning system developed by the University.
A skyscraper-size asteroid was revealed in year-old telescope data thanks to a new algorithm that could rock the way near-Earth objects are discovered.
A new technique for finding potentially hazardous asteroids before they find us has chalked up its first success. In this case, the asteroid isn’t expected to threaten Earth anytime in the foreseeable future. But the fact that the technique — which uses a new computer algorithm called HelioLinc3D — actually works comes as a confidence boost as astronomers get set to step up the asteroid hunt with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The University of Washington’s DiRAC Institute will play a l
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