Space Be an Asteroid Hunter in NASA’s First Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest Series by Gary Kopycinski on March 10, 2014 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Space: How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades May 16, 2024 Hubble Finds Hungry Black Hole Twisting Captured Star Into Donut Shape January 12, 2023 Christmas Launch Now for the James Webb Space Telescope December 21, 2021 Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 10, 2014. NASA’s Asteroid Data Hunter contest series will offer $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids.