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...
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On the ten-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk event, we asked esteemed science journalist Stuart Clark to help tell the story of this meteorite bolide and the instrumental changes it instigated in how individuals, governments, and space agencies think about asteroid threats. An internationally read author,...
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Asteroid Institute engineer Kathleen Kiker speaks on Precovery, a service of ADAM, at the 2022 LSST European Conference. Asteroid Institute, a program of B612, and partner of LSST and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, virtually joined speakers at this year’s LSST@Europe 4 conference in Rome, Italy....
Summer Interns Enrich Asteroid Institute Crew This past summer, Asteroid Institute (a program of B612) in partnership with the University of Washington, hosted a group of seven interns who helped with an assortment of tasks, including data ingestion for our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM)...
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Nine years ago today, an asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. It was only about 20 meters in diameter (or 55-65 feet) — by meteor and asteroid standards, pretty small, but as you may remember, it packed a punch. The explosion injured over 1,500 people and...
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...
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...