Asteroid Detection

2022 | Asteroid Institute | Annual Report

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01 November, 2022
Asteroid Institute | DART deflection event with scientists and friends

For 20 years B612 advocated for a deflection technology demonstration mission. Scientists and experts gather, discuss and watch the historic DART impact. On September 26, humanity took an important step forward in our ability to protect planet Earth from asteroid impacts. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection...

25 October, 2022
Asteroid Institute Expands Database

Huge Amounts of Data Ingested Thanks to UW Interns by Nate Tellis One of the things that has made the Asteroid Institute’s work possible is the availability of excellent photometric catalog data from high-quality surveys performed over the last decades. The asteroid discovery work done by the...

22 September, 2022
Asteroid Institute | Precovery API Announced

The Asteroid Institute launches Precovery API, a benefit to the entire astronomy community.   By Kathleen Kiker In August 2022 the Asteroid Institute announced our Precovery API, an astrodynamic service running on the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform. Precovery looks for observations of an object in...

08 September, 2022
Asteroid Institute’s ADAM Platform: First 104 Asteroid Discoveries News Coverage

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17 June, 2022
Press Release: B612 Foundation Announces $2.3 Million in Leadership Gifts

  B612 Foundation Announces $2.3 Million in Leadership Gifts Donors investing in advancing Astrodynamics Platform to Discover Asteroids San Francisco, May 27,  2022 /PRNewswire/ — The B612 Foundation announced today a new $1 million matching challenge grant from Tito’s Handmade Vodka and separate $1.3 million in gifts to...

27 May, 2022
Asteroid Institute | ADAM: Nate Tellis

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19 April, 2022
Asteroid Institute Hosts First In-person Hackathon in Two Years!

The B612 Asteroid Institute and our Vera Rubin Observatory partners met for a hackathon in person for the first time in two years. Among our goals was bringing the first of our astrodynamics services, Asteroid Precovery, online for internal testing. Asteroid Precovery is part of the...

01 April, 2022
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