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....
The Asteroid Institute team had some significant achievements this past year: the detection of previously unknown asteroids using years-old images; and the launch of the THOR algorithm on our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform, as reported by The New York Times in May. These...
This fall, the Asteroid Institute (a program of B612) partnered with the University of California Berkeley’s Data Science Discovery Program and three of their undergraduate students to work on real-life problems that ultimately enhanced aspects of our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform. Tanay Bhadra,...
In 1908 the biggest meteor explosion in modern history, over Tunguska, Russia, flattened 800 square miles (2,100 square kilometers) of forest. Luckily, it happened over the Siberian Taiga — otherwise, it would have wiped out what is the equivalent of the greater Los Angeles area. Trees...
Summer Interns Enrich Asteroid Institute Crew This past summer, Asteroid Institute (a program of B612) in partnership with the University of Washington, hosted a group of seven interns who helped with an assortment of tasks, including data ingestion for our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM)...
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The Asteroid Institute crew met at the University of Washington in Seattle for a three-day, team-centric, problem-solving hackathon. The Asteroid Institute crew sporting their new t-shirts. From left to right: Nate Tellis, Quentin Caudron, Mario Juric, Alec Koumjian, Joachim Moeyens, Kathleen Kiker, Ed Lu, Paulo Barrera,...
Alongside our donors and the astronomical community, we are creating a tool to enable human expansion into space, provide insight into Earth's evolution, and protect our planet: a map of the solar system. Throughout human history, mapping has been the key to the opening of new...
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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...