Harold Reitsema, Asteroid Institute Mission Director, looks at the updated 2017 report from NASA on the threat from near-Earth objects (NEOs). NASA's Near-Earth Object Science Definition Team has released an update to a previous report on the threat posed by near-Earth objects that was released in 2003[1]. This report provides a more thorough...
Bryce Bolin, Senior Researcher at B612's Asteroid Institute, discusses 1I/'Oumuamua, the first interstellar asteroid discovery, and how the Asteroid Institute team is studying it. 'Oumuamua Mia! [caption id="attachment_24498" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory, M. Kornmesser[/caption] More than three weeks ago on October 18, 2017, the first interstellar object...
Financial Times published an article written by B612 president Danica Remy and Asteroid Institute executive director Ed Lu. The article advocates for mapping the inner solar system. In the article, Remy and Lu wrote: "Our priority for developing the space frontier is in building a comprehensive...
The post is written by B612 Co-founder and Asteroid Institute Executive Director, Ed Lu. Ed is a NASA Astronaut and an explorer whose quest is to map the unknown—whether by surveying the oceans at Liquid Robotics, leading Google Advanced Projects Team to map our neighborhoods, or his...
The post is written by B612 founding board member, Geoffrey Baehr. Geoffrey is a General Partner at Almaz Capital investing in areas ranging from security and networking to analytics and big data technologies. October 7 marked 15 years since B612 was formed to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. Each...
This post is written by B612 Co-founder, Rusty Schweickart. Rusty is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a retired business executive and co-founder of B612 Foundation. October 7 marked 15 years since B612 was formed to protect the...
October 7 marked 15 years since B612 was formed to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. Each day this week, five founding board members will each reflect on B612’s 15 years. The post below is written by B612 founding board member, Clark Chapman. Clark is a planetary scientist whose...
October 7 marked 15 years since B612 was formed to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. This week, five founding board members will each reflect on B612's 15 years, looking at the strides we've made in the field of planetary defense and where we want to go in...
On October 4-5, 2017, B612's Asteroid Institute and the DIRAC Institute (also known as Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology) hosted the first ADAM project HackDays at the University of Washington in Seattle. ADAM (Asteroid Decision and Analysis Machine) is a project of the Asteroid Institute that works to better understand...
INTERVIEW WITH MARC BUIE: THE GREAT AMERICAN SOLAR ECLIPSE We recently had a chance to catch up with Marc Buie, astronomer, planetary scientist, and institute scientist at the Asteroid Institute. Buie works with telescopes from around the globe, has a long-term interest in Pluto (having created some...