Orbit@home

BOINC based volunteer computing project researching asteroid orbits

orbit@home

Platform	BOINC

orbit@home^[1] was a BOINC-based volunteer computing project of the Planetary Science Institute. It uses the "Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis"^[2] framework to optimize the search strategies that are used to find near-Earth objects.

On March 4, 2008, orbit@home completed the installation of its new server and officially opened to new members. On April 11, orbit@home launched a Windows version of their client. On February 16, 2013, the project was halted due to lack of grant funding.^[3] However, on July 23, 2013, the Orbit@home project was selected for funding by NASA's Near Earth Object Observation program. It was announced that orbit@home is to resume operations sometime in 2014 or 2015.^[4] As of July 13, 2018, orbit@home is offline according to its website, and the upgrade announcement has been removed.

References

^ Tricarico, Pasquale (2017-03-01). "The near-Earth asteroid population from two decades of observations". Icarus. 284: 416–423. arXiv:1604.06328. Bibcode:2017Icar..284..416T. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.008. ISSN 0019-1035. S2CID 85440139.
^ ORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
^ "orbit@home is upgrading!". Orbit.psi.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-29.
^ "orbit@home is upgrading!". Orbit.psi.edu. Retrieved 2014-07-06.

External links

Official website

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) projects

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Amicable Numbers
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nanoHUB@home
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YAFU

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