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2024
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
2023
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
ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 52
- Welcome new Head of Engineering Alec Koumjian
- Spring Hackathon Focuses on Running Precovery on Risk List Asteroids
- How the Chelyabinsk Blast Changed the Way Humanity Deals with Asteroid Threats
- Kathleen Kiker on Precovery at 2022 LSST@Europe4
- 8th IAA Planetary Defense Conference 2023
- Dr. Ed Lu presents at Rainbow Mansion in Cupertino, CA
2022
ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 51
- 2022 Fall UC Berkeley Interns
- 2022 Summer UW Interns
- Fall 2022 Hackathon Focuses on Risky Asteroids and New Dataset
- DART deflection event with scientists and friends
ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 50
- Asteroid Discoveries
- Precovery Launched
- The People Behind ADAM: Nate Tellis
- Seattle Spring and San Francisco Summer In-person Hackathon Successes!
- Asteroid Day Celebrates its Eighth Year
2021
ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 49
- Engineering the Cosmos: The NASA DART Mission
- Scott Manley and Asteroid Institute Visit Meteor Crater
- ADAM Platform Recognized at AAS Division for Planetary Sciences
- Imaginators in Action: Talk on Asteroids with Astronauts & Futurists
- “Don’t Look Up” Movie Premiere and Asteroids with Andrew Revkin
ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 48
- Remembering Carolyn S. Shoemaker
- Asteroid Institute | Emmie King
- Dr. Greenstreet in Physics Today
- Bennu Will Not Hit Earth
- Donor Spotlight | Meet Esther Dyson
ASTEROIDS & BEYOND: NEWSLETTER VOL. 47
- How Many Asteroids will LSST Find?
- Meet ADAM’s Allan Posner
- ADAM Hack-a-thon
- Asteroid Day 2021
2020
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