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Dan Dixon

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Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010
« on: August 26, 2010, 12:46:48 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d-gs0WoUw

Be sure to watch this in HD.
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Re: Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2010, 02:37:48 PM »
That's really cool.

Was this computed on a supercomputer?
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Re: Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2010, 06:37:45 PM »
No... I don't think so.

As I understand it... All of these asteroids are being plotted using their orbital element information which is far less processor intensive than a gravity simulation.

In the video description they link to the database that they used to create this:
http://www.naic.edu/~nolan/astorb.html
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Re: Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2010, 07:09:19 PM »
Hmm. Still interesting. Amazing how they found that many in 30 years.
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