The B612 Asteroid Institute’s Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) project continues to make progress. The acronym for our ADAM project has also evolved (replacing Machine with Mapping). This can be summarized by an article in the Financial Times on the need for mapping the...
[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 publishes its 2021 annual progress report In a year filled with continued transition and ultimately hope, the Asteroid Institute has, in many ways, mirrored those sentiments with our mission to increase the rate of asteroid discovery. We...
With asteroid 2018 VP1 making recent headlines, Dr. Ed Lu, Executive Director of the Asteroid Institute, recently spoke to Salon about the unlikelihood of this asteroid hitting Earth. Lu notes that 2018 VP1 will be like "a shooting star in the sky" if it enters...
While 2020 has handed out plenty of things to worry about, asteroid 2018 VP1 hitting Earth on November 2nd isn’t one of them. You’ve probably seen the sensationalist headlines of a potential Earth impacting asteroid heading our way on November 2, the day before the United...
The ADAM research and development team participated in the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) Readiness Sprint 3. B612 Foundation has been a sponsor of the Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) sprints since their inception. This support enables the collaboration to be prepared for when LSST...
AD LIVE watched by two million viewers and #asteroidday reached more than nine billion impressions with strategic support from B612 Foundation. On June 30th, individuals, astronomy groups, schools, museums and organizations from around the world came together, looked into the skies, and then shifted their gaze...
[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]Every Asteroid Institute hackathon brings our contributors together to work with high intensity on the most important goals for our software system. We wanted to build on the successes of our last hackathon in October 2019, where we...
Asteroid Institute Moving Astrodynamics at Scale Forward by Hank Grabowski A hackathon is a modern software development practice of bringing together a team to spend a couple of days focusing on a handful of specific goals. This helps focus efforts for a brief period of time, usually...
We are pleased to publish B612's annual progress report. 2019 has been an important year for B612, the Asteroid Institute, and the field of asteroid science and education. In the report, we share updates about the investments our supporters enable. With your help, we work to...
Asteroid Institute Senior Researcher Dr. Sarah Greenstreet was the lead author on a recently submitted research paper entitled, “Required Deflection Impulses as a Function of Time Before Impact for Earth-Impacting Asteroids,” with contributors, Mike Loucks, John Carrico, Tatiana Kichkaylo, Mario Juric, and myself. This paper...