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Comment Re:A seti@home style search isn't going to work (Score 1) 14

by a_passmoore on Wednesday October 24, 2001 @01:08AM (#2470654) Attached to: Too Many Asteroids To Keep Track Of?

The question is, can we make accurate NEO forecasts 100 years ahead? 15,000+ Asteroids interacting with each other and the planets & commets add up. We may be looking at an NP-hard optimization, which no supercomputer could crack.

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