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2024

2024 Annual Progress Report | Asteroid institute

June 30, 2024 | Asteriod Day

June 28, 2024 | 2024 Schweickart Prize Winner

• Joe DeMartini receives the 2024 Schweickart Prize
• The SUNSET Proposal
• VIDEO — Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Joe DeMartini on Schweickart Prize

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 55

• Engineering Progress: Enhancing Asteroid Discovery
• Dr. Ed Lu inducted into the IAF Hall of Fame
• Rusty Schweickart receives Legendary Explorer Award

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 54

• Discovering Asteroids on the Cloud
• 2024 Winner of the Schweickart Prize
• Asteroid Day at Chabot Space and Science Center

May 1, 2024 | B612’s Asteroid Institute Discovers 27.5K Asteroids

• ADAM::THOR discovers 27.6k previously unseen asteroids in old data
• Exclusive New York Times and other news

Feb 15, 2024 | Chelyabinsk and the changing landscape of planetary defense

• Looking back, over a decade since Chelyabinsk
• How the ADAM platform will transform asteroid discovery

2023

2023 Annual Progress Report | Asteroid institute

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 53

• Schweickart Prize will Inspire the Next Generation of Planetary Defenders
• Asteroid Day at California Academy of Sciences
• Asteroid Day Global
• Kathleen Kiker on The Path
• ADAM::Precovery Tool Available for Public Use

2020 Annual Progress Report | B612 Asteroid Institute

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 46

• Addressing Unmet Challenges
• Asteroid 2018 VP1
• Meet ADAM Software Engineer, Kathleen Kiker
• Dr. Ed Lu’s “Cosmic Conversation”

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 45

• Asteroid 2018 VP1
• Meet Institute Researcher Joachim Moeyens
• Asteroid Day TV

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 44

• New Asteroid Deflection Research
• Meet ADAM Senior Engineer Carise Fernandez
• Dynamical Study of an Asteroid Orbit by Dr. Sarah Greenstreet
• “Stump the Astronaut!”

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 43

• Meet Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicist Hank Grabowski
• ESA’s HERA Mission Funded
• ADAM Hack-a-thon

2019

2019 Annual Progress Report | B612 Asteroid Institute

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 42

• Understanding What it Takes to Divert Asteroids
• Asteroid Map Fulfills Americans Highest Priorities for Space
• Debunking Fake News!
• Danica Remy in Forbes and NBCnews.com

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 41

• Dr. Ed Lu on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday
• 5 Years of Asteroid Education at Meteor Crater
• 50th Anniversary of Apollo 9
• Research from the Asteroid Institute

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 40

• Dr. Ed Lu in Popular Science
• B612 Strategic Advisor Scott Manley discusses Hayabusa-2
• Dr. Ed LuDr. Ed Lu’s “Charting the High Frontier of Space” at the Long Now Foundation

2018

2018 Annual Progress Report | B612 Asteroid Institute

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 39

• Pew Research shows 62% of Americans Believe Asteroid Monitoring is a Top Priority
• Asteroid Institute team at the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC)
• UN office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) releases report titled “Near-Earth Objects and Planetary Defense”
• Dr. Ed Lu in PC Magazine

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 38

• Asteroid 2018 LA and the World Asteroid Tracking System
• Asteroid Institute publishes NASA Tech Note on Synthetic Tracking technology
• The Asteroid Institute Partners with York Space Systems and MSU-Denver

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 37

• The Asteroid Institute announces Google Cloud and AGI as New Partners
• Dr. Ed Lu featured in National Geographic
• 5 year Anniversary of Chelyabinsk Asteroid Blast
• Project ADAM Building the Tools to Map Asteroids

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 36

• B612 is 15 Years Old!
• B612 Co-Founder Rusty Schweickart Honored With the 2017 Champions of Science Award
• Asteroid Institute hosts first Hack-a-thon With DIRAC
• Interstellar Object 1I/’Oumuamua

2017

2017 Annual Progress Report | B612 Asteroid Institute

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 35

• Study Looking at the Physical Mechanisms of Damage Caused by Asteroid Impacts
• B612 Hosts Romanian cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu for a Two-Day Bay Area Visit

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 34

• Asteroid Day Special Edition

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 33

• B612 Launches the Asteroid Institute
• Asteroid Day Moves to Luxembourg
• B612 Strategic Advisor David Brin Visits the Bay Area For a Fireside Chat Discussing his New Book, Chasing Shadows
• Luxembourg’s Crown Prince and Princess and Deputy Prime Minister hosted a Space Panel and Reception at NASA Ames

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 32

• Update on NASA’s NEOCam Proposal
• Asteroid Day Press Conference
• B612 Supporter Scott Recognized with a Celestial Namesake

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 31

• B612 co-sponsored a Near-Earth Object Modeling Workshop
• Analysis of Asteroid Telescope Performance is Published
• Brian May Announced the Naming of Asteroid 17473 ‘Freddiemercury’ in Honor of the late Freddie Mercury’s 70th birthday
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 novella, The Little Prince, B612’s namesake) Recreated in an Animated Film

2016

2016 Annual Progress Report | B612 Asteroid Institute

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 30

• 7-part Web Series With the Rock Stars of Asteroid Research Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 2nd Annual Asteroid Day a Success
• Dr. Ed Lu Speaks at the Los Cumbres Speaker Series in Santa Barbara

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 29

• Asteroid Day Special Edition

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 28

• 3yr Anniversary of the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Blast Special Edition

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 27

• B612 Response to NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office
• B612 Co-Founder and Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart in Popular Mechanics
• Meet B612 Supporter Ruth Sears

2015

205 B612 Progress Report Vol. 26

• B612’s first annual progress report

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 25

• NPR’s Planet Money Interviews Dr. Ed Lu
• Asteroid Day and NEOShield-2 Partnership
• New 100X Asteroid Declaration Signatories
• Dr. Ed Lu Speaks at Geekwire Summit, Seattle

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 24

• The History of B612 Foundation
• About the Gravity Tractor
• Asteroid Day in London
• Letter to former President Bush
• Asteroid Institute Advisor, Scott Manley’s “If You Could See All the Asteroids”

ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 23

• Celebrating the first ever Asteroid Day with a recap by Rusty Schweickart!
• Insuring Against an Asteroid Impact Event by Asteroid Day Expert Panelist, Debbie Lewis

Asteroid Day Special Edition: The B612 Foundation Newsletter

• Stories from around the globe in celebration of the first ever Asteroid Day

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