orbit@home is a BOINC

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it became useful as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics,...

-based distributed computing

Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...

 project of the Planetary Science Institute

Planetary Science Institute

The Planetary Science Institute is a research institute based in Tucson, Arizona, focusing on planetary science.Founded in 1972 on a non-profit basis, it is involved in many NASA missions, the study of Mars, asteroids, comets, interplanetary dust, the formation of the Solar System, extrasolar...

. It uses the Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis framework to optimize the search strategies that are used to find near-earth object

Near-Earth object

A near-Earth object is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it into close proximity with the Earth. All NEOs have a perihelion distance less than 1.3 AU. They include a few thousand near-Earth asteroids , near-Earth comets, a number of solar-orbiting spacecraft, and meteoroids large enough to...

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On March 4, 2008 orbit@home completed the installation of its new server and officially opened to new members.

On April 11, 2008 orbit@home launched a Windows version of their client.

External links

• orbit@home website