I've just joined in - just yesterday - and have done 6021 units, What does that mean in terms of help to the project? I'm on an M1 Mac. If I were on a reasonably powerful PC might that number be 600,000? Just curious about how much "work" I'm doing and how useful it is. I realize that this is distributed and "every little bit helps" but trying to get some perspective on it. Thanks.

G'Day mate,

All that information and more can be found on the About Page
https://asteroidsathome.net/cs/article01.html

You just have to translate it from Czech.

Asteroids has written some interesting articles and you can see the DAMIT Database on the main site
https://asteroidsathome.net/

Happy crunching and enjoy the ride

Welcome Bud!
in short, a single WU doesn't have enough data for the whole asteroid. The project processes data from multiple sky surveys like ZTF, Atlas, or Catalina. These observations are distributed across many volunteers and mixed to produce meaningful data like the rotation period, size, shape etc... more observations of a single celestial body further improve the accuracy, so we can't say exactly how many asteroids were processed by your PC, it varies a lot.

if you want to know more, I recommend this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcfg-J4BiBc by Mr. Durech.