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Engineering Progress at the Asteroid Institute: Enhancing Asteroid Discovery

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15 October, 2024
Asteroid Institute | IAA Planetary Defense Conference 2023

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03 April, 2023
Asteroid Institute | Kathleen Kiker on Precovery at 2022 LSST@Europe4

Asteroid Institute engineer Kathleen Kiker speaks on Precovery, a service of ADAM, at the 2022 LSST European Conference.     Asteroid Institute, a program of B612, and partner of LSST and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, virtually joined speakers at this year’s LSST@Europe 4 conference in Rome, Italy....

26 January, 2023
Asteroid Institute
DPS iPoster | The Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) Platform

Presented at the 2021 conference of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society The Asteroid Discovery, Analysis, and Mapping (ADAM) platform   Sarah Greenstreet, Ed Lu, Mario Juric, Joachim Moeyens, and the Asteroid Institute team B612 Asteroid Institute, University of Washington   Abstract The B612 Asteroid Institute has developed the...

10 October, 2021
The Effect of Warning Time on the Deflection of Earth-Impacting Asteroids | ADAM

As an Asteroid Institute Researcher, I am studying how impacting asteroids need to be "nudged" (re: velocity change/ delta-v) to avoid hitting Earth. Through the Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) project, a Google cloud-based platform under development, I and colleagues simulate the impact avoidance of...

02 May, 2019
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs Report on Near Earth Objects

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09 July, 2018
Asteroid Institute Synthetic Tracking Research Published

Asteroid Institute funded project releases NASA tech note with support from Planet, JPL, and CalTech describing an asteroid detection demo using synthetic tracking technology was recently published. This is the first time this synthetic tracking technique has been used for the purpose of asteroid detection...

29 May, 2018
Press Release: B612 Asteroid Institute Provides Valuable Analysis to Discovery of ‘Oumuamua Asteroid

B612 Asteroid Institute Studies and Provides Data to 'Oumuamua Discovery [caption id="attachment_24497" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory, M. Kornmesser[/caption]   SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 5, 2017) -- Within days of the announcement by NASA's Minor Planet Center of the discovery of the first-ever interstellar object, 'Oumuamua,...

05 December, 2017
A Look at the 2017 Updated Report on the Threat Posed by Near-Earth Objects

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...

05 December, 2017
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