Asteroid Institute Uses Revolutionary Cloud-Based Astrodynamics Platform to Discover and Track Asteroids Demonstrating a new era of software-driven asteroid discovery San Francisco, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, today announced it is using a groundbreaking computational technique running on its...
B612 Foundation Announces $2.3 Million in Leadership Gifts Donors investing in advancing Astrodynamics Platform to Discover Asteroids San Francisco, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The B612 Foundation announced today a new $1 million matching challenge grant from Tito’s Handmade Vodka and separate $1.3 million in gifts to...
B612 Foundation Announces New Board Chair Futurist Peter Schwartz San Francisco, February 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — B612 Foundation, the well-respected non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Earth from asteroid impacts, has announced the election of Peter Schwartz as Chair of its Board of Directors. Peter Schwartz succeeds venture...
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...
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By Peter Schwartz and Dr. Ed Lu Humanity is about to take an important step forward in our ability to protect planet Earth from asteroid impacts. The DART probe (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will demonstrate a method of changing the velocity of an asteroid, a capability...
[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...
Presented at the 2021 conference of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society The Asteroid Discovery, Analysis, and Mapping (ADAM) platform Sarah Greenstreet, Ed Lu, Mario Juric, Joachim Moeyens, and the Asteroid Institute team B612 Asteroid Institute, University of Washington Abstract The B612 Asteroid Institute has developed the...
"I believe that people who take the long view are the ones who actually change the future." ~Esther Dyson We recently sat down with early Founding Circle member Esther Dyson to learn more about her commitment to space, solving problems and why she was an early...
We recently sat down with Asteroid Circle member Rick Armstrong, to learn a bit more about his connection to space, why he supports B612 and the Asteroid Institute and what inspires him. Tell our readers a little bit about yourself. What do you do for work?...