https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.12918/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41447579urn:hackerpapers:mention:2310.12918:41447579Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:28:43 GMT<p>I work on the NASA NEO Surveyor project (and have helped out a lot on the WISE/NEOWISE mission, which found a lot of asteroids). I create and run simulations of asteroid detections, which ends up being mostly orbit calculations. In the next few years the rate of detections of these sort of objects are going to go way up, NEO Surveyor and the Vera Rubin LSST telescopes are going to take our current knowledge of the solar system from about 1.4 million asteroids to approximately 10x that. It is somewhat difficult to estimate how many we will see, since the size distribution follows a power law…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.12918/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.EP