Pangloss, the predecessor of Digest2, was written by Robert McNaught, not Robert Jedicke. McNaught adds some interesting history in an email he sent me. He tells that he wrote the program in the 1980s in BASIC on a Commodore 64 or 128, that it was rewritten in FORTRAN for the AANEAS project, and that [...]
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This is the first in a series of posts that will delve into the concepts and algorithms behind Digest2, the program we use at the MPC to screen candidate observations for posting to the NEOCP. Purpose of the algorithm and the program The algorithm starts with the motion vector of an observed moving object [...] |
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