Orbit@home

orbit@home is a BOINC-based distributed computing project of the Planetary Science Institute. It uses the Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis^[1] 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, 2008 orbit@home launched a Windows version of their client.

On February 16, 2013, the project was stopped due to lack of grant funding.^[2] However, on July 23, 2013, the orbit@home project was selected for funding by NASA's Near Earth Object Observation program and is to resume operations sometime in fall 2013. ^[3]

See also

• List of distributed computing projects

References

External links

• orbit@home website

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