IEEE Spectrum NASA Needs Coders to Help Prevent Asteroid ArmageddonIEEE SpectrumSavvy coders can soon help NASA defend Earth against asteroid threats and win some cash prizes in the bargain. The U.S. space agency has joined forces with an asteroid-mining company…
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Asteroids Plus Titanfall Equals Retro Absurdity – Wired
Wired Asteroids Plus Titanfall Equals Retro AbsurdityWiredTiny shards of space rock heading your way in Asteroids ? They’d blow up your tiny triangle of a spaceship, but they shatter harmlessly when they hit your Titan. It completely breaks the games,…
NASA will pay $35k to asteroid hunters – Houston Chronicle
NASA will pay $35k to asteroid huntersHouston Chronicle17, 2013, at the Kennedy Space Center’s Operation and Checkout Facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft that will one day carry astronauts to study an asteroid and eventually on to Mars. Orion’s…
Nasa's Asteroid Data Hunter contest offers £20k reward for software to save planet – Daily Mail
Daily Mail Nasa’s Asteroid Data Hunter contest offers £20k reward for software to save planetDaily MailBut existing asteroid detection systems can only track one per cent of the estimated objects that orbit the sun, according to asteroid mining firm Planetary…
NASA contest offers prizes for citizen asteroid hunters – CBS News
NASA contest offers prizes for citizen asteroid huntersCBS NewsThe “Asteroid Data Hunter” contest starts on March 17 and runs through August. A partnership between NASA and Planetary Resources, Inc., the contest asks participants to create computer algorithms that can identify…
Want to save the world from asteroids? Using code? NASA has a job for you – VentureBeat
NPR (blog) Want to save the world from asteroids? Using code? NASA has a job for youVentureBeatWant to use your computer skills to, you know, save the world? Then NASA has the contest for you. The space agency is launching…
NASA Needs Asteroid Hunters – Houston Press (blog)
NASA Needs Asteroid HuntersHouston Press (blog)Since a trip to Mars is years and a whole lot of scientific development away, NASA is focusing on asteroids. If you’ve always dreamed of saving the planet from an asteroid, now is your chance.…
Protect the Earth! Your help is needed to find potentially-dangerous asteroids – Yahoo News Canada (blog)
Yahoo News Canada (blog) Protect the Earth! Your help is needed to find potentially-dangerous asteroidsYahoo News Canada (blog)This diagram shows the orbits of all known potentially-hazardous asteroids up until early 2013Are you a skilled computer programmer? Have the stories of…
Nasa seeks coders to hunt asteroids – BBC News
BBC News Nasa seeks coders to hunt asteroidsBBC NewsUS space agency Nasa is seeking coders who could help prevent a global catastrophe by identifying asteroids that may crash into Earth. Its Asteroid Data Hunter contest will offer $35,000 (£21,000) to…
NASA Offers $35000 For Help In Tracking Asteroids – NPR (blog)
NPR (blog) NASA Offers $35000 For Help In Tracking AsteroidsNPR (blog)Cash prizes await “citizen scientists” who can improve algorithms that help NASA find and identify asteroids in our solar system, the agency says. A contest to find more asteroids begins…