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Asteroid Institute engineer Kathleen Kiker speaks on Precovery, a service of ADAM, at the 2022 LSST European Conference. Asteroid Institute, a program of B612, and partner of LSST and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, virtually joined speakers at this year’s LSST@Europe 4 conference in Rome, Italy....
This fall, the Asteroid Institute (a program of B612) partnered with the University of California Berkeley’s Data Science Discovery Program and three of their undergraduate students to work on real-life problems that ultimately enhanced aspects of our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform. Tanay Bhadra,...
Summer Interns Enrich Asteroid Institute Crew This past summer, Asteroid Institute (a program of B612) in partnership with the University of Washington, hosted a group of seven interns who helped with an assortment of tasks, including data ingestion for our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM)...
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The Asteroid Institute crew met at the University of Washington in Seattle for a three-day, team-centric, problem-solving hackathon. The Asteroid Institute crew sporting their new t-shirts. From left to right: Nate Tellis, Quentin Caudron, Mario Juric, Alec Koumjian, Joachim Moeyens, Kathleen Kiker, Ed Lu, Paulo Barrera,...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Asteroid Institute 2022 Annual Progress Report This has been an exceptional year for the Asteroid Institute thanks to our donors, partners, and growing engineering and science team who have enabled us to make our first asteroid discoveries using ADAM...
For 20 years B612 advocated for a deflection technology demonstration mission. Scientists and experts gather, discuss and watch the historic DART impact. On September 26, humanity took an important step forward in our ability to protect planet Earth from asteroid impacts. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection...
Huge Amounts of Data Ingested Thanks to UW Interns by Nate Tellis One of the things that has made the Asteroid Institute’s work possible is the availability of excellent photometric catalog data from high-quality surveys performed over the last decades. The asteroid discovery work done by the...
The Asteroid Institute launches Precovery API, a benefit to the entire astronomy community. By Kathleen Kiker In August 2022 the Asteroid Institute announced our Precovery API, an astrodynamic service running on the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform. Precovery looks for observations of an object in...