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2024 | Asteroid Institute | Annual Report

2024 marked a year of exciting growth and progress for the Asteroid Institute. With invaluable support from our donors, including leadership gifts from Laurie Girand, Scott McGregor, Tito’s CHEERS, and our partners at Google Cloud, we’ve made strides in mapping the solar system and advancing...

PRESS RELEASE | B612 Foundation Announces Inaugural Schweickart Prize Winner

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...

Press Release: Asteroid Institute and Google Cloud Identify 27,500 New Asteroids

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...

2023 | Asteroid Institute | Annual Report

Asteroid Institute is one step further in the development of our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform, moving us closer to enabling the mapping of our solar system and advancing the rate of asteroid discovery. This past year, our engineers and interns have worked on...

2022 | Asteroid Institute | Annual Report

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Asteroid Institute’s ADAM Platform: First 104 Asteroid Discoveries News Coverage

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Press Release: B612 Foundation Announces $2.3 Million in Leadership Gifts

  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...

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2021 | Asteroid Institute | Annual Report

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Scott Manley and Asteroid Institute Visit Meteor Crater

Asteroid Institute advisor Scott Manley and researchers visit Meteor Crater to study an ancient asteroid impact   Asteroid Institute recently organized an annual expedition into Meteor Crater. Thanks to the Barringer Family, Asteroid Institute researchers have non-public access to the crater's rim and base. Asteroid Institute is...