{"id":11104,"date":"2013-09-22T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11104"},"modified":"2013-09-22T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T19:09:08","slug":"synthetic-tracking-set-to-revolutionise-near-earth-asteroid-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11104","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSynthetic Tracking\u201d Set to Revolutionise Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By contrast, they say that with a 5 metres telescope, synthetic tracking should spot about 80 of these objects each night. That\u2019s \u201calmost 1000 times higher than the discovery rate of these small objects over the last 5 years,\u201d they say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-physics-arxiv-blog\/74e8fdba42bf\">\u201cSynthetic Tracking\u201d Set to Revolutionise Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery\u00a0 \u2014 The Physics arXiv Blog \u2014 Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But there are other uses for this data. NASA is hoping to send a crewed mission to a near Earth asteroid in the not-too-distant future and has started a program called the Asteroid Grand Challenge to identify potential targets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paper on this subject <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1309.3248\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By contrast, they say that with a 5 metres telescope, synthetic tracking should spot about 80 of these objects each night. That\u2019s \u201calmost 1000 times higher than the discovery rate of these small objects over the last 5 years,\u201d they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1197,855,100,862],"class_list":["post-11104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-asteroids","tag-astronomy","tag-interesting-research","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11106,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11104\/revisions\/11106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}