Improving Software for Asteroid Detection
Under a newly funded grant, UA computer scientists Alon Efrat and Jonathan Myers will work to improve tracking methods and computer algorithms meant to detect asteroids bound for Earth. The UA researchers are collaborating with the Minor Planet Center, located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Massachusetts.
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