Crowdsourcing works for many things, and people seem very willing to help and to burn some of the cognitive surplus and free time, so long as it is for charity or for the possible reward. This ensures that the direction that amateur astronomers to NEOs or Near Earth Asteroids has been able to find NEO NEA lot of sense right? Of course it is, does, and hey, if you are one that nobody else has found – you can even name! Ok this is a good price – I’m telling you! Well not so fast, let me explain.

You see, I told an acquaintance that 90% of the supposed discoveries of asteroids by amateurs are not legitimate and of course everyone should be that of an astronomer before the record books will be checked. In fact, it’s time to finally call for professional astronomers, not to a large number of “material time” due diligence Sun But many think this is a good use of “free labor” and it certainly promotes science and profession of astronomy, deny, is that a good thing?

Do not get me wrong some of the greatest astronomical discovery of our time were found by amateurs, so it is no laughing matter, even a well-known comet, in fact. Unfortunately, the NASA NEO census project with budget problems, and as I am informed by my knowledge there are only three people working there now, and they only work 9-5. And then I’m not sure if this is true, notice that you can not see, comets and asteroids through the observatory telescope at night, when there are no clouds – see the problem?

Therefore, the crowdsourcing is stopped. Worse yet, we do not yet know an estimated 10-15% of all NEO or so they think, but they have no way of knowing. Importance of the next big asteroid on the Earth, as the race that the Dinosaurs 400000000 years were killed not taken place. Do you want to save the world? Why not be the biggie comets or asteroids that could end all life on Earth, and somebody said, they can send a team to remove it. Please keep in mind here.