NASA launches software for asteroid identification – Script Brazil

The software was created by NASA to help lay people and amateur astronomers to identify asteroids was named Asteroid Date Hunter.

Look to the heavens is something that has always fascinated mankind, and over the years, technology has progressed and the observation was becoming increasingly determined to people could contemplate the beauty of the cosmos.

These days, with so many facilities to find products that allow people to view the skies of a more efficient way, more and more amateur astronomers around the around the world.

And because of this great interest from people around the world that NASA decided to launch a software that helps lay people and amateur astronomers to identify asteroids.

Asteroid Date Hunter (ADH)

The software that was created by NASA to help lay people and amateur astronomers to identify asteroids was named Asteroid Hunter Date (ADH), and as its name suggests, aims to help the asteroid hunting worldwide.

In a simple operation, the ADH compares several photos that were taken from the same part of the sky, and then identify asteroids based on points that change position during the analysis of these different images.

With this, it is possible that ordinary people can identify asteroids that had never been previously cataloged with the important help of tool created by NASA.

With this, the Space Agency of the United States begins to expand his army of people who are eyeing the skies, and managed to get them to become part of something big, and same time, getting more information is acquired easily, based on the common people efforts.

Where to download?

For those who love to look at the heavens and was excited with the idea of ​​being able to participate in NASA’s search for new asteroids with the help of a tool developed by the agency, and you want to download it now, the good news is that DHA is now available for free download.

Compatible to work both on desktops, as in laptops, the ADH can do analysis also based on photographs taken by amateur astronomers, which makes it really very efficient.

The idea of ​​creating a software that helps ordinary people to identify asteroids came by NASA for some time, and gained life thanks to a partnership made between the US agency and a company specializing in technology focused on astronomy called Planetary Resources.

The purpose of NASA is to make the asteroids discovered with the help of ADH can be cataloged by the Minor Planet Center, which is a body linked to the famous Harvard University.