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Looking Back, Looking Forward. The Next 15 Years! by Ed Lu

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...

B612’s 15th Birthday by Geoffrey Baehr

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...

B612’s 15th Anniversary by Clark Chapman

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...

Piet Hut: The Birth of B612

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...

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Asteroid Institute’s ADAM Project Hosts Hackathon

  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...

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Marc Buie: An Astronomer’s Experience at the Great American Solar Eclipse

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...

SpaceNews: B612 Studying Smallsat Mission to Search for Near-Earth Objects

  The newly announced Asteroid Institute was covered in Jeff Foust’s June 20th article in SpaceNews. The publication noted that the Institute’s work will support research on asteroid detection and planetary defense. Ed Lu, Executive Director of the Asteroid Institute, discussed that the Institute will focus its...

Asteroid Institute has Launched!

We are excited to announce the launch of the Asteroid Institute at B612. This Institute is a dedicated scientific and technical academic program that will further our commitment to prevent asteroid impacts. The Asteroid Institute is set-up as a virtual organization that has a close...

Facing the Future of LSST Era Hazardous Asteroid Discovery

B612 Asteroid Institute’s Bryce Bolin Discusses the Future of Planetary Defense.   The B612 Asteroid Institute will be a virtual organization with a particularly close new working collaboration with Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology Center (DIRAC) at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Washington,...