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173: Last alert system with Dr. Denneau
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English - May 24, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 23.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 377 ratingsAstronomy Science Earth Sciences earth saturn spaceexploration stars asteroids astronomy galaxies jupiter mars mercury Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dr. Larry Denneau talks about the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. He talks about how asteroid detection is a data processing problem. Every night ATLAS handles about a quarter terabyte of data. He describes how they find a few asteroids among a billion other sources, and tells us about a unique discovery by the program. This episode was recorded in June 2019, which explains the restaurant noises and the talk of air travel.