ESA’s Hera Mission funded, humanity is making progress on planetary defense! Last month, Europe’s space ministers gathered at Space19+ in Seville, Spain and approved ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for construction and launch, as part of the Agency’s broader planetary defense initiatives that aim to protect citizens...
A recent AP-NORC poll found two-thirds of Americans wanted the US space program to prioritize monitoring asteroids. The poll asked 1,137 American adults “How important is it for the United States space program to do each of the following?” and the top response was “Monitor asteroids,...
Danica Remy, B612 President, was interviewed by NBCNews.com about the recent asteroid flybys. Danica highlighted that the risk to Earth from asteroids is small in the short-term, but it is inevitable in the long-term and for the first time in human history we have the technology...
For the second year in a row, B612 sponsored the LSST Solar System Readiness Sprint, a convening of scientists ensuring the readiness of the scientific community to interpret LSST’s solar system data when it begins operation. One of the largest telescopes on Earth, the Large Synoptic...
If you read internet news, you may have seen headlines that say “KILLER ASTEROID ON COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH” or “COULD ASTEROID X HIT EARTH NEXT WEEK?.” Too many sites earn their clicks with fake and fearful headlines about asteroids. We try to explain that this...
By: Danica Remy, President Last week, an asteroid about 100 meters in diameter, Asteroid 2019 OK, sped past Earth at a distance of about 70,000 kilometers. The asteroid safely missed our planet, but at 70,000 kilometers, Asteroid 2019 OK came quite close - much closer than...
On June 30th, the world came together to celebrate Asteroid Day's 5th anniversary in Luxembourg. B612 co-founders Rusty Schweickart and Dr. Ed Lu, along with B612 President Danica Remy, joined dozens of other asteroid experts from around the world for three incredible events. Asteroid Day Technical...
Rusty Schweickart, Apollo Astronaut, and Asteroid Day and B612 co-founder, gave a moving speech this Asteroid Day about humanity 50 years after Apollo. “It wasn’t Neil Armstrong who could look back on Earth, but it was all of us. That was the significance of Apollo […]...
Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) recently hosted Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicists John Carrico and Mike Loucks on their podcast. AGI is a leader in creating software for the aerospace and defense industries. John and Mike go into the Asteroid Institute’s latest research on propagating asteroid orbits and predicting...
Asteroid Institute is the only nonprofit organization in the world dedicated to asteroid science and to protecting the Earth from asteroid impacts B612 recognizes Meteor Crater Enterprises and The Barringer Crater Company for a long partnership in bringing “learning journeys” to the best-preserved impact crater site...