How the MPC Defines “Interesting”: An Overview of Digest2

Sonia Keys, one of the MPC programmers, has written the first in a series of articles that will explain how the program Digest2 works. In short, Digest2 looks at a recently observed object moving across the sky and determines how likely it is to be a near Earth object; at the MPC, an NEO is always considered “interesting” and worthy of further attention. Read the full article here.… Continue reading...