Good news for amateur astronomers! NASA is offering USD 35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids.
NASA’s Asteroid Data Hunter contest series challenges participants to develop significantly improved algorithms to identify asteroids in images captured by ground-based telescopes. The winning solution must increase the detection sensitivity, minimise the number of false positives, ignore imperfections in the data, and run effectively on all computer systems.The first contest in the series will kick off on March 17 and the entire series runs through August.