The Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping project or ADAM is a platform for mapping, modeling, and analyzing asteroid observations and will form the basis for building future services such as mission planning, asteroid risk visualization, space navigation, and resource mapping. ADAM will primarily run from...
Have you ever wondered how an asteroid gets named? Asteroid Institute Researcher Dr. Sarah Greenstreet describes the asteroid recently named after her. From the first time I heard as a new graduate student that asteroids are often named after astronomers to recognize their contributions to the...
ABOUT THIS EPISODE On the latest episode of the Boost VC podcast, Ed and host Adam Draper have a conversation that covers it all! Listen in as they discuss what makes space fun, Ed’s training to command a Soyuz in just 9 weeks, thoughts on colonizing...
Leading up to Asteroid Day, on June 15, Asteroid Institute Executive Director Dr. Ed Lu joined hosts Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett on Relay FM’s “Liftoff,” a fortnightly podcast about space, the universe, and everything. With thoughtful and engaging questions from Jason and Stephen, Ed...
[caption id="attachment_27402" align="aligncenter" width="701"] Photo Credit: Hillary Aiken / B612[/caption] On June 30th, individuals, astronomy groups, schools, and organizations will come together, look into the skies and celebrate Asteroid Day. On June 30th, individuals, astronomy groups, schools, museums and organizations from around the world will come together,...
Meet Allan Posner, an engineer and astrodynamicist at the Asteroid Institute, who’s focused on the ADAM project. You might have read Allan’s blogpost about Asteroid 2018 VP1; if not, you can find it here. Allan is an integral member of the Asteroid Institute team, previously holding...
[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_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_27339" align="aligncenter" width="700"] 156 Tunguska sized or larger Near-Earth-Asteroids were discovered in our simulation of year-one LSST operations that periodically pass close enough to Earth’s orbit to pose a collision risk. Most of...
[caption id="attachment_27324" align="alignright" width="300"] Composite image of Lyrid and non-Lyrid meteors, seen over New Mexico from April 21-23, 2012. (NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser)[/caption] Tomorrow is Earth Day and with cautious optimism about the year ahead, let’s take a moment to celebrate the importance of this day. And in...
[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]By: Kathleen Kiker and Carise Fernandez One of the goals of research at the Asteroid Institute is to make interpretation of asteroid data open and accessible. As part of that goal, we also believe in the importance of open...
On February 12, 2021, just 3 days before the 8-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk asteroid blast, Asteroid Institute Executive Director and B612 co-founder Dr. Ed Lu joined Ryan Wyatt of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences for a “Cosmic Conversation.” The California...