Across 50,000 Light Years forums announce Orbit@Home forum

Charlies Web Teams home forum, Across 50,000 Light Years, announces the new Orbit@Home forum.

Orbit@Home is scheduled to go public with the beta phase sometime next month. Some extra participants can help keep the team high in the standings.

You can check our stats here:
http://boincstats.com/stats/team_graph.php?pr=orbit&id=748

DistributedComputing.info wrote:

Help orbit@home "monitor the impact hazard posed by Near Earth Objects." The project uses the Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis (ORSA) framework. More information can be found at the ORSA@work website and in a presentation poster titled Distributed Computing and Near Earth Objects Hazard Monitoring, published by Pasquale Tricarico of Washington State University on November 14, 2004.

The project completed its testing phase on May 28, 2008, and began its public beta test on May 31, 2008.

Update wrote:

For 2010 we plan to run our code on real data, primarily sky coverage data by real NEA's surveys, to produce two main products:

• a detailed map of the NEA's population, including both known and unknown NEAs, that will show clearly the orbits that are more likely to hide unknown asteroids; this map should improve our estimate of the total number of asteroids with a given brightness or diameter that are still unknown, and help surveys in their search;
• a sky map updated every night containing the regions in the sky that are more likely to contain unknown NEA's, and make this chart publicly available, so that interested NEAs surveys can test it and assess whether such a tool significantly improves the chances to discover new NEA's

We plan to resume active development in March 2010."

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