Do you have what it takes to be an ASTEROID HUNTER? Nasa offers £20,000 reward for software that could save planet

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The world’s leading space agency is looking for asteroid hunters to help save the planet – and you could help.

 

Nasa is offering up to $35,000 (£21,000) over the next six months to anyone who is able develop computer code that can identify life-threatening asteroids.

 

By mining talent from the general public, the space agency hopes to spot dangerous space rocks such as the one that saw off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

 

Over the past two decades, Nasa has been looking for dangerous near-Earth asteroids larger than 1km in size, and claims to have found 98 per cent of them.

 

But existing asteroid detection systems can only track one per cent of the estimated objects that orbit the sun, according to asteroid mining firm Planetary Resources, who is partnering with Nasa on the project.

 

Currently there are only around 100 people who tracks asteroids each day to determine their shape and speed.

 

Nasa wants to increase that number, particularly over  Africa and Asia where spottings aren’t being made.

 

 

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