AI Algorithm , Locates Previously Undetected , 'Hazardous' Asteroid.<br />'Dazed' reports that artificial intelligence <br />has helped spot a "potentially hazardous <br />asteroid" (PHA) for the first time. .<br />The PHA was reportedly spotted <br />by a star-gazing algorithm after <br />having slipped past human scientists. .<br />According to algorithm HelioLinc3D, the asteroid<br />is approximately 600 feet long and on a course <br />that will bring it within 140,000 miles of our planet.<br />Scientists project that the chances of the asteroid <br />hitting the Earth in the next 100 years are fairly slim.<br />However, 'Dazed' reports that scientists <br />have identified 2,350 PHAs and estimate <br />that over 3,000 more remain unidentified.<br />HelioLinc3D, the algorithm responsible <br />for spotting asteroid 2022 SF289, was developed <br />for the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. .<br />The discovery came amid a test run <br />that proved that HelioLinc3D could beat <br />existing algorithms in detecting PHAs. .<br />By demonstrating the real-world <br />effectiveness of the software that <br />Rubin will use to look for thousands <br />of yet-unknown potentially hazardous <br />asteroids, the discovery of <br />2022 SF289 makes us all safer, Ari Heinze, the principal developer of HelioLinc3D and a <br />researcher at the University of Washington, via 'Dazed'.<br />Scientists believe that the Rubin observatory, <br />combined with the capabilities of HelioLinc3D, will <br />be capable of spotting new PHAs on a daily basis.
