Last year the Asteroid Institute expanded its engineering team with the hire of software engineer, Kathleen Kiker. Kathleen joined the ADAM team from Lockheed Martin where she led the development for the latest releases of large-scale Fortran and C++ physics modelling codes to run on...
The last year has shown us all just how adaptable we can be as humans. At the Asteroid Institute, we are taking a moment to pause. And in that pause we’re recalibrating; finding hope and inspiration through our core organizational values. These values have been...
In a year that can only be described as turbulent, we are happy to share progress and news in our 2020 annual progress report. This year required a lot of pivoting and uneasy transitions for our families, communities, and the world. The unprecedented events of...
Have you ever been asked a question to which your truthful response is: “Well, that depends…”? It happens all of the time. For example, your availability to meet with someone might depend upon factors as diverse as adjacent meetings, the weather, etc. Sometimes, prediction is,...
On October 20th OSIRIS-REx will grab a sample of asteroid Bennu which has been in space since the earliest days of the solar system. For the last few years the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been carefully studying and surveying the small asteroid Bennu, looking for a spot...
While 2020 has handed out plenty of things to worry about, asteroid 2018 VP1 hitting Earth on November 2nd isn’t one of them. You’ve probably seen the sensationalist headlines of a potential Earth impacting asteroid heading our way on November 2, the day before the United...
Meet Institute Researcher and University of Washington Graduate Student, Joachim Moeyens. Joachim is an Asteroid Institute Researcher and graduate student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Joachim is interested in big data and software driven solutions to problems in astronomy. During his...
Asteroid Institute’s work to build a dynamic map of the inner solar system presented virtually on the Explorer’s Club Facebook page. On May 18, Dr. Lu spoke on the work he and his team are doing to build the tools to calculate near-Earth asteroid orbits and...
Dr. Sarah Greenstreet’s research collaboration with DIRAC Institute at the University of Washington was published in the journal Icarus. In 2018, B612 launched the Asteroid Institute Research Fellows program in partnership with the DIRAC Institute at the University of Washington. In the two years after it...
On April 14th we invited our global “B612 Crew” to take a break from the news, homeschooling, and adapting to quarantined life, to join the community to “Ask Dr. Ed Lu Anything”! It was great to see B612 supporters, families, and children from around the world...