Artificial intelligence has discovered 11 potentially hazardous to Earth asteroids
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The Solar system and its nearest neighbors, literally filled with asteroids. Most of these objects are never cross with us, but some of them actually represent, or will represent a threat to our planet in the future. So, 65 million years ago Chicxulub already staged on the real Earth, judgement day, killing dinosaurs and other animals. In a paper published in the journal , researchers report artificial neural network, which identified several potentially dangerous for the Earth asteroids. Eleven of these asteroids, according to the forecast, may encounter our planet after the year 2131. According to the authors of the study, time — very important resource in search of a way to prevent asteroid impact on our only home.
Incredible success AI
Artificial , developed by scientists from Leiden University (the Netherlands), were able to identify up to 11 new asteroids, which are considered dangerous and may encounter our planet after the year 2131. The neural network is called HOI (identifier dangerous objects), which in Dutch means "Hello", is able to predict the trajectory of asteroids, no matter how remote they may be today. Researchers have modeled the orbits of the Sun and planets for the next 10,000 years. Then they turned back time to see what happens on this regressive temporal trajectories, including identified to date asteroids and their orbital distribution.
The Neural network got the information about all existing asteroids thanks to the newly created library of the asteroids. Thus, the neural network has analyzed the trajectory of asteroids 2000, previously identified by NASA, to determine whether there is probability of falling to the Ground in the near future.
It is the Chicxulub asteroid that fell to Earth 65 million years ago killed the dinosaurs
As the authors of the study if to turn back the clock, you can see that the Ground fell a lot of known asteroids. So you can create a library of orbits that ever fell to the surface of our planet. Artificial intelligence system picked 11 of asteroids, not previously identified by NASA as a threat. Moreover, these objects were not registered as potentially problematic. However, the diameter of each of them more than 100 meters, and mass is enough to create catastrophic explosive power. Sooner or later, these cosmic Wanderers can face of our planet. Although the probability of their falling on the Earth is very small or equal to zero, in the period from 2131 at 2923 years, these asteroids will approach us more than 10 times closer than the Moon.
Why dangerous asteroids was not discovered earlier?
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The fact that 11 of the asteroids have not been previously identified as is the fact that the orbit of these objects is chaotic. As a result, they are not considered current software space organizations. In the future, the researchers intend to improve the system, to be able to anticipate dangerous stairs with much greater accuracy. As he writes , the work was given to understand that the methodology works. However, in order to improve the obtained results, more information needed. The main problem is that the breaks in the calculation of the orbit can lead to important changes.
Despite the fact that the probability of falling of an asteroid to Earth is very small, the development of a plan to prevent such a catastrophe is clearly not redundant
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