Orbit@home

{{Short description|BOINC based volunteer computing project researching asteroid orbits}}

{{Infobox distributed computing project|screenshot=Orbit@home.png|screenshot_size=270px|platform=BOINC|title=orbit@home}}

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orbit@home{{Cite journal |last=Tricarico |first=Pasquale |date=2017-03-01 |title=The near-Earth asteroid population from two decades of observations |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103516300914 |journal=Icarus |language=en |volume=284 |pages=416–423 |doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2016.12.008 |arxiv=1604.06328 |bibcode=2017Icar..284..416T |s2cid=85440139 |issn=0019-1035}} was a BOINC-based volunteer computing project of the Planetary Science Institute. It uses the "Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis"[http://orsa.sourceforge.net/index.html ORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis]. Retrieved on 2011-02-20. framework to optimize the search strategies that are used to find near-Earth objects.

On March 4, 2008, orbit@home completed the installation of its new server and officially opened to new members. On April 11, orbit@home launched a Windows version of their client. On February 16, 2013, the project was halted due to lack of grant funding.{{cite web|url=http://orbit.psi.edu/?q=node/32 |title=orbit@home is upgrading! |publisher=Orbit.psi.edu |access-date=2013-10-29}} However, on July 23, 2013, the Orbit@home project was selected for funding by NASA's Near Earth Object Observation program. It was announced that orbit@home is to resume operations sometime in 2014 or 2015.{{cite web|url=http://orbit.psi.edu/?q=node/33 |title=orbit@home is upgrading! |publisher=Orbit.psi.edu |access-date=2014-07-06}} As of July 13, 2018, orbit@home is offline according to its website, and the upgrade announcement has been removed.