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How Many Asteroids Will Vera Rubin Observatory Find? We Have An Estimate – By Dr. Ed Lu

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08 May, 2021
Asteroid Institute Carries Out First Virtual ADAM Hack-a-thon of 2021

[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...

10 March, 2021
Asteroid Institute | ADAM: Kathleen Kiker

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...

02 February, 2021
Asteroid 2018 VP1 – So Close, Yet So Far Away by Allan Posner

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,...

30 October, 2020
Good News, 2018 VP1 Hitting Earth is Nothing to Worry About

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...

24 August, 2020
B612 Sponsors Collaboration Focused on use of LSST Dataset

The ADAM research and development team participated in the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) Readiness Sprint 3. B612 Foundation has been a sponsor of the Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) sprints since their inception.  This support enables the collaboration to be prepared for when LSST...

06 August, 2020
Asteroid Institute | ADAM: Hank Grabowski

Hank Grabowski is an Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicist and Principal Systems Engineer working on the Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping project (ADAM) at the Asteroid Institute.  With a 20+ year history in the software and astrodynamics industry, Hank brings a wealth of experience with building scalable software...

02 March, 2020
Asteroid Institute Hackathon Kicks Off 2020 by Carise Fernandez

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19 February, 2020
Asteroid Institute Moving Astrodynamics at Scale Forward by Hank Grabowski

Asteroid Institute Moving Astrodynamics at Scale Forward by Hank Grabowski A hackathon is a modern software development practice of bringing together a team to spend a couple of days focusing on a handful of specific goals. This helps focus efforts for a brief period of time, usually...

12 November, 2019
B612 Sponsors 2nd Annual LSST Solar System Readiness Sprint in Chicago

For the second year in a row, B612 sponsored the LSST Solar System Readiness Sprint, a convening of scientists ensuring the readiness of the scientific community to interpret LSST’s solar system data when it begins operation. One of the largest telescopes on Earth, the Large Synoptic...

12 August, 2019
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