Newsletter Archive | 2015-2021

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: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation Newsletter Vol. 34

Asteroid Day Special Edition

Asteroids & Beyond: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation Newsletter Vol. 32

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

Asteroids & Beyond: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation Newsletter Vol. 29

Asteroid Day Special Edition

Asteroids & Beyond: The B612 Foundation Newsletter Vol. 28

3yr Anniversary of the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Blast Special Edition

Asteroids & Beyond: The B612 Foundation 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

Asteroids & Beyond: B612 Progress Report Vol. 26

B612’s first annual progress report

Asteroids & Beyond: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation 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: The B612 Foundation 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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