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439 points david927 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.21s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
1. ddahlen ◴[] No.44417215[source]
I posted a couple of months ago:

https://github.com/dahlend/kete

Research grade orbit calculations for asteroids and comets (rust/python).

I began working on this when I worked at caltech on the Near Earth Object Surveyor telescope project. It was originally designed to predict the location of asteroids in images. I have moved to germany for a PhD. I am actively extending this code for my phd research (comet dust dynamics).

Its made to compute the entire asteroid catalog at once on a laptop. There is always a tradeoff between accuracy and speed, this is tuned to be <10km over a decade for basically the entire catalog, but giving up that small amount of accuracy gained a lot of speed.

Example, here is the close approach of Apophis in 2029:

https://dahlend.github.io/kete/auto_examples/plot_close_appr...