As of Feb 25, 2025, Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer poses a significant risk of hitting the Earth. Visit the NASA Small Body Database for the most up to date information on this asteroid. The engineering team at Asteroid Institute has been busy since early...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCEC4EaY00Q&t[/embedyt] Twelve years ago, on February 15, 2013, the world received an undeniable wake-up call about the dangers posed by near-Earth asteroids. Without warning, a 18-meter asteroid streaked across the sky before exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The resulting shockwave damaged over 7,200...
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,...
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Credit: Christopher Michael Today, our cofounder Dr. Ed Lu was inducted into the prestigious International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Hall of Fame. This honor places him among a distinguished group of individuals and organizations, including Elon Musk, the Apollo 11 crew, and the James Webb Space Telescope...
[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...
It has now been over a decade since the Chelyabinsk event. Like last year and the year before that, February 15th is marked within our organization, and many witnessed its aftermath as the day humanity woke up to the threat of asteroids. While NASA, B612,...
B612’s Asteroid Education program increases awareness about asteroids and science through public speaking and exposure in the media. In addition to Asteroid Day, in 2023 we shared stories about our work and why the world should learn more about asteroids. PRESENTATIONS + PRESS March | Dr. Ed...
In the upcoming book The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration, Dr. Ed Lu and other distinguished members such as former president Teddy Roosevelt, Dr. Jane Goodall, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin, tell their inspiring stories of modern exploration. Dr....
Asteroid Institute is one step closer to creating a reliable and accurate asteroid discovery platform with the development of ADAM::Precovery, a tool to refine asteroid orbits. For both new and old discoveries, orbit refinement (improving the orbital fit by adding new observations) can help us...