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Asteroid Institute | 2022 Summer Interns Highlight

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)...

Tito’s CHEERS $1 million Challenge Grant

[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] Your donation doubled: Tito’s CHEERS program matches your gifts before December 31!   Tito’s CHEERS has issued an exciting challenge grant to our organization: they will match donations up to $1 million to help us enable scientific exploration, economic development,...

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Nine-Year Anniversary of the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Blast

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...

Asteroid Discovery Analysis + Mapping (ADAM) | Project Update by Dr. Ed Lu

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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DPS iPoster | The Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) Platform

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...

Danica Remy at the 2021 Global Exploration Summit (GLEX)

Danica Remy, B612 President, spoke at the 2021 Global Exploration Summit (GLEX) hosted in Portugal on the importance of one day mapping the solar system. The annual GLEX Summit, co-organized by The Explorers Club and Expanding World, brings together the world’s leading explorers to showcase...

B612 Sponsors Collaboration Focused on use of LSST Dataset

The ADAM research and development team participated in the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) Readiness Sprint 3. B612 Foundation has been a sponsor of the Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) sprints since their inception.  This support enables the collaboration to be prepared for when LSST...

B612 Supports Asteroid Education with Asteroid Day TV + Asteroid Day LIVE!

AD LIVE watched by two million viewers and #asteroidday reached more than nine billion impressions with strategic support from B612 Foundation. On June 30th, individuals, astronomy groups, schools, museums and organizations from around the world came together, looked into the skies, and then shifted their gaze...