Asteroid Institute engineers presented online at this year’s Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference, held in November. The ADASS conference serves as a premier forum for exchanging ideas on software development and data analysis within the astronomical community. The institute’s Head of Software Engineering,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This past Asteroid Day (observed on June 30th worldwide) we celebrated B612’s 20th Anniversary and the launch of the Schweickart Prize at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The prize, named in honor of renowned Apollo 9 astronaut and B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6btgPqRod1c[/embedyt] In his TEDxSonomaCounty talk, B612 Foundation co-founder and Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart discusses the concept of “cosmic birth”, how humanity came into existence together, and how we must work together to protect the evolutionary future of life. Rusty takes us on a journey...
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...
In early March, the Asteroid Institute team met for our Spring Hackathon, hosted at the Google campus in Mountain View, California. This was a chance to get together in person and work on our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform, with a focus on...