2024 | Asteroid Institute | Annual Report
2024 marked a year of exciting growth and progress for the Asteroid Institute. With invaluable suppo...
B612 Cofounder Dr. Ed Lu Inducted into the IAF Hall of Fame
Credit: Christopher Michael Today, our cofounder Dr. Ed Lu was inducted into the prestigious Interna...
Press Release: Asteroid Institute and Google Cloud Identify 27,500 New Asteroids
With advanced computational methods, the companies scanned billions of detections, discovering withi...
Crew Members
With the arrival of the public cloud, researchers can now get access to large computational resources when they need them with much less overall cost and time penalty and we're seeing that large datasets can be applied to new problems.
FOUNDING CIRCLE
Dr. Vint Cerf
Father of the Internet
FOUNDING CIRCLE
Dr. Vint Cerf
Father of the Internet
The ancients were correct in their belief that the heavens and the motion of astronomical bodies affect life on Earth—just not in the way they imagined. Sometimes those heavenly bodies run into Earth. This is why we must make it our mission to find asteroids.
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Lord Martin Rees
British Astronomer Royal and Cosmologist
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Lord Martin Rees
British Astronomer Royal and Cosmologist
By smart and skillful usage of Google Cloud compute and storage systems, B612 has been able to extract the maximum possible information from existing astronomical data to identify unknown asteroids, improve our prediction of their orbits and estimate the probability of possible collisions with our planet.
Dr. Massimo Mascaro
Technical Director, Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO
Dr. Massimo Mascaro
Technical Director, Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO
Previously, such a comprehensive, multi-survey, search would require days of manual work; with ADAM::Precovery we had the answer in minutes. It felt like Googling the imaged sky!
Zeljko Ivezic
Director of the Rubin Observatory
Zeljko Ivezic
Director of the Rubin Observatory
More NEO observations from the ground and from space are required to understand the asteroid hazard. More research on deflection and mitigation is necessary.
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Carolyn Shoemaker
American astronomer and
co-discoverer of
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Carolyn Shoemaker
American astronomer and
co-discoverer of
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
Working proactively and internationally to prevent serious asteroid impact is a good step.
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Roger Blandford
Professor of physics at Stanford University
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Roger Blandford
Professor of physics at Stanford University
Technical Excellence
Our extended team of staff, collaborators, and partners are the best and are unparalleled in expertise. The success of our work is dependent on it.
Leadership
We believe it is our responsibility to put our knowledge and expertise to work for the betterment of humanity.
Exploration
We are driven by a thirst for knowledge. Our commitment to discovery is fed by a sense of wonder for the universe, and for our evolving capacity to explore it.
Initiative
We believe in stepping up and addressing unmet challenges. We don’t believe in wishing for the best, but instead in exploring and devising solutions with the best outcomes.