Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
Source: New York Times
A couple of years ago, a team of researchers dedicated to finding killer asteroids before they kill us came up with a neat trick.Instead of scanning the skies with telescopes for asteroids, the scientists wrote an algorithm that sifts through old pictures of the night sky, discovering about 100 asteroids that had been overlooked in those images.On Tuesday, those scientists, with the Asteroid Institute and the…
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