JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission recently achieved its objective of landing two robot rovers on the surface of the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. This is an exciting first, and a significant move forward to understanding what asteroids can teach us about the origins of our solar system. You can read...
NASA recently announced it is supporting the building of two additional ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescopes to be built in the Southern hemisphere. This is good news as it will fill in the gaps since there are regions in the southern sky currently not...
B612 Asteroid Institute attended the LSST’s Solar System Science Collaboration meeting on July 10-12, 2018 at the University of Washington in Seattle. The B612 Asteroid Institute’s development of the Asteroid Decision and Analysis Mapping (ADAM) platform is largely motivated by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey...
B612 Asteroid Institute Strategic Advisor Dr. Brian May has co-authored a 3-D book on the moon race set to be released in November. Brian is not only an astrophysicist and guitarist for the rock band Queen, but he also co-founded Asteroid Day in 2014, alongside...
Salon.com recently posted an article on building a better asteroid warning system featuring interviews with B612 President Danica Remy and Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicist John Carrico. The article looks at B612’s partnership with Google Cloud and how cloud technology is necessary to provide a more advanced warning...
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It’s been a month since Asteroid Day 2018, and we want to share with you the reach and significance of what the B612 helped make happen on June 30. Ed and Rusty have been educating and advocating for the world to pay attention to the risks of...
ESA and NASA are currently reviewing the Hera Mission with plans to demonstrate that an asteroid can be shifted in its orbit by 2022. This is a great mission for ESA and NASA, and we look forward to cheering both agencies efforts during the course of...
On Asteroid Day (June 30, 2018) the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) released a report titled “Near-Earth Objects and Planetary Defense.” This is a milestone in the global conversation about asteroids and defending our planet. We are delighted that UNOOSA used Asteroid Day...
Dr. Ed Lu of the B612 Asteroid Institute, explains how mapping the inner solar system with the ADAM project can help us recognize asteroid threats and opportunities. With Asteroid Day 2018 just around the corner, Dr. Ed Lu recently spoke to PC Magazine about several...