The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to transform asteroid discovery, and I couldn’t be more excited. For over a decade now, we’ve watched the building of this revolutionary telescope, all the while our Asteroid Institute has been creating open, scalable software to support these...
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 9th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Joe DeMartini, the inaugural recipient of the Schweickart Prize, delivered a virtual presentation on his winning proposal: the SUnward NEO Surveillance and Early Twilight Detection (SUNSET) Collaboration. This project aims to address the critical challenge of detecting Sunward...
At the 9th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Asteroid Institute engineer Kathleen Kiker delivered a virtual presentation titled LSST & Impactors: How Much Warning Time for Asteroid Impacts Will We Have in the Vera Rubin Era? Kathleen presented findings from simulation-based analyses using synthetic impactor populations and...
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...
The Asteroid Institute team outside the University of Washington Physics and Astronomy Building. From left to right: Delphine Veronese-Milin, Alec Koumjian, Joachim Moeyens, Ed Lu, Danica Remy, Nate Tellis, Kathleen Kiker, Colleen Fiaschetti Earlier this month, our Asteroid Institute team gathered at the University of Washington...
After completing an internship at NASA Ames and earning a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics from UC Berkeley, Delphine Veronese-Milin knew she wanted to take a break from academics to gain real-world experience. With the pandemic in full swing, she never could have predicted she’d go...
Watch Asteroid Institute Director and B612 CoFounder Dr. Ed Lu on ABC News to discuss asteroid 2024 YR4. While initial estimates raised concerns, new data confirms 2024 YR4 is no longer a threat to Earth....
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...