At the Spring 2025 Asteroid Institute Hackathon in Seattle, researcher Dr. Joachim Moeyens and Head of Software Engineering Alec Koumjian presented our suite of open-source tools to the LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing (LINCC). These tools are designed to help researchers, students, and...
The Asteroid Institute team outside the University of Washington Physics and Astronomy Building. From left to right: Delphine Veronese-Milin, Alec Koumjian, Joachim Moeyens, Ed Lu, Danica Remy, Nate Tellis, Kathleen Kiker, Colleen Fiaschetti Earlier this month, our Asteroid Institute team gathered at the University of Washington...
After completing an internship at NASA Ames and earning a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics from UC Berkeley, Delphine Veronese-Milin knew she wanted to take a break from academics to gain real-world experience. With the pandemic in full swing, she never could have predicted she’d go...
B612 Foundation Announces Inaugural Schweickart Prize Winner Joe DeMartini, an astronomy Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland (UMD), is awarded the Schweickart Prize for his outstanding leadership and innovative planetary defense proposal. San Francisco, June 28, 2024 /PRnewswire/ – B612 Foundation announces today the first Schweickart...
With advanced computational methods, the companies scanned billions of detections, discovering within weeks as many asteroids as were found worldwide in an entire year MILL VALLEY and SUNNYVALE, Calif., – April 30, 2024 - Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, and Google Cloud today announced...
Asteroid Institute and Google Cloud Identify 27,500 New Asteroids, Revolutionizing Minor Planet Discovery with Cloud Technology FACT SHEET Technical Information What is the “title” announcement about in a nutshell? What has ADAM::THOR discovered in this analysis? How does this compare to other asteroid discovery efforts? How does the astronomical community track...
[caption id="attachment_30228" align="alignnone" width="800"] The 2024 Explorer’s Club awardees. Pictured from left to right: Rita Cowell, Rusty Schweickart, Nico Vincent, John Shears, Callie Veelenturf (front), Frank Culbertson (back), Lynn Danaher, Dante Lauretta, Daniel S. Goldin. Credit: Felix Kunze[/caption] Today, The Explorers Club honored Apollo 9 astronaut...
Demonstrating a new era of software-driven asteroid discovery and tracking San Francisco, August 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, announced today the release of a publicly available Precovery service that can both confirm and refine the orbits of asteroids by rapidly...
Launched to honor Apollo 9 astronaut Russell “Rusty” Schweickart, it recognizes students, and early career individuals working towards planetary defense solutions San Francisco, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today, on June 30th, International Asteroid Day, B612 Foundation announced the Schweickart Prize, named in honor of renowned...
[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" css=".vc_custom_1655499331959{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]On Tuesday May 31st, the Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, issued a press release about the discovery of the first 104 main-belt asteroid discoveries using the THOR algorithm running on the Asteroid...