Science
How the brilliant computer HOI predicts dangerous asteroids, at lightning speed
Can we prevent a catastrophic strike from an asteroid on Earth? Leiden astronomers invented HOI: the Hazardous Object Identifier, and trained it to predict which space rocks might hit us... and when.
Anoushka Kloosterman
Wednesday 27 May 2020
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