LXer: NASA to programmers: Save the Earth and fatten your wallet
 

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Experts team up with space miners to sponsor asteroid finding algorithm contestNASA is teaming up with the asteroid-mining wannabes at Planetary Resources to offer $35,000 in prizes in a contest to develop algorithms to detect Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) – asteroids – with the goal of spotting those that might threaten the Earth.…

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