2024 marked a year of exciting growth and progress for the Asteroid Institute. With invaluable support from our donors, including leadership gifts from Laurie Girand, Scott McGregor, Tito’s CHEERS, and our partners at Google Cloud, we’ve made strides in mapping the solar system and advancing...
B612 Foundation Announces Inaugural Schweickart Prize Winner Joe DeMartini, an astronomy Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland (UMD), is awarded the Schweickart Prize for his outstanding leadership and innovative planetary defense proposal. San Francisco, June 28, 2024 /PRnewswire/ – B612 Foundation announces today the first Schweickart...
With advanced computational methods, the companies scanned billions of detections, discovering within weeks as many asteroids as were found worldwide in an entire year MILL VALLEY and SUNNYVALE, Calif., – April 30, 2024 - Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, and Google Cloud today announced...
Asteroid Institute and Google Cloud Identify 27,500 New Asteroids, Revolutionizing Minor Planet Discovery with Cloud Technology FACT SHEET Technical Information What is the “title” announcement about in a nutshell? What has ADAM::THOR discovered in this analysis? How does this compare to other asteroid discovery efforts? How does the astronomical community track...
Asteroid Institute is one step further in the development of our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform, moving us closer to enabling the mapping of our solar system and advancing the rate of asteroid discovery. This past year, our engineers and interns have worked on...
Demonstrating a new era of software-driven asteroid discovery and tracking San Francisco, August 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, announced today the release of a publicly available Precovery service that can both confirm and refine the orbits of asteroids by rapidly...
Launched to honor Apollo 9 astronaut Russell “Rusty” Schweickart, it recognizes students, and early career individuals working towards planetary defense solutions San Francisco, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today, on June 30th, International Asteroid Day, B612 Foundation announced the Schweickart Prize, named in honor of renowned...
This fall, the Asteroid Institute (a program of B612) partnered with the University of California Berkeley’s Data Science Discovery Program and three of their undergraduate students to work on real-life problems that ultimately enhanced aspects of our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform. Tanay Bhadra,...
The Asteroid Institute crew met at the University of Washington in Seattle for a three-day, team-centric, problem-solving hackathon. The Asteroid Institute crew sporting their new t-shirts. From left to right: Nate Tellis, Quentin Caudron, Mario Juric, Alec Koumjian, Joachim Moeyens, Kathleen Kiker, Ed Lu, Paulo Barrera,...
[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] Asteroid Institute 2022 Annual Progress Report This has been an exceptional year for the Asteroid Institute thanks to our donors, partners, and growing engineering and science team who have enabled us to make our first asteroid discoveries using ADAM...