Risk Corridor of near-Earth asteroid 2010 RF12 with potential impacts on September 6 2095 created with ADAM:: Impact Probability tool Asteroid Institute has launched a demo of ADAM::Impact Probability, a new tool for projecting and visualizing impact risk of individual Near-Earth asteroids over the next 75...
At the Spring 2025 Asteroid Institute Hackathon in Seattle, researcher Dr. Joachim Moeyens and Head of Software Engineering Alec Koumjian presented our suite of open-source tools to the LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing (LINCC). These tools are designed to help researchers, students, and...
As of Feb 25, 2025, Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer poses a significant risk of hitting the Earth. Visit the NASA Small Body Database for the most up to date information on this asteroid. The engineering team at Asteroid Institute has been busy since early...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCEC4EaY00Q&t[/embedyt] Twelve years ago, on February 15, 2013, the world received an undeniable wake-up call about the dangers posed by near-Earth asteroids. Without warning, a 18-meter asteroid streaked across the sky before exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The resulting shockwave damaged over 7,200...
Asteroid Institute engineers presented online at this year’s Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference, held in November. The ADASS conference serves as a premier forum for exchanging ideas on software development and data analysis within the astronomical community. The institute’s Head of Software Engineering,...
[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 css=""] Our engineering team has made significant strides in advancing the tools and technology that power the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform. Over the past year, we’ve focused on refining the core infrastructure and open-source libraries,...
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 is one step closer to creating a reliable and accurate asteroid discovery platform with the development of ADAM::Precovery, a tool to refine asteroid orbits. For both new and old discoveries, orbit refinement (improving the orbital fit by adding new observations) can help us...
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...
[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]The Asteroid Institute team presented a poster on our automated Precovery service at the 2023 IAA Planetary Defense Conference in Vienna. The poster shows the Asteroid Institute’s work creating a continuous pipeline to search for new observations of...