Google Cloud and Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI) joined with Asteroid Institute to develop a cloud-based platform for tracking asteroid discoveries. The two companies have become technology partners for the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping project, or ADAM. The project aims to provide software infrastructure for analyzing trajectories...
Earlier today, the Asteroid Institute issued a press release announcing Google Cloud and AGI among its new technology partners for the ADAM project. This is an important moment in developing a cloud-based platform to provide analytical tools to help scientists, world leaders, and citizens understand...
ASTEROID INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES GOOGLE CLOUD AND AGI AS NEW TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS FOR THE ASTEROID DISCOVERY ANALYSIS AND MAPPING (ADAM) PROJECT JOHN CARRICO TO LEAD DEVELOPMENT OF ADAM SILICON VALLEY, CA (February 28, 2018) -- The Asteroid Institute today announced Google Cloud and AGI as new technology partners...
Ed Lu, Asteroid Institute Executive Director, was interviewed on CNN about asteroid awareness and planetary defense. Check it out to see him discuss humanity's current detection capability, recent impacts, and how B612 is working to solve the problem. (NOTE: This video is unavailable on Chrome...
Today marks the five-year anniversary of the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. That meteor surprised the world, including the astronomical community. I’m sure you remember the footage from that day. On February 15, 2013 that small asteroid - approximately 20 meters in diameter -...
[caption id="attachment_24688" align="alignleft" width="381"] Space rock slips by Earth. Courtesy: Texas A&M[/caption] Leonard David, a space journalist and author who has been reporting on space activities for over 50 years, featured B612 and the Asteroid Institute on his INSIDE OUTER SPACE website. Mr. David covers B612's progress in 2017...
[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" css=".vc_custom_1512558657854{margin-top: 50px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]This year marked a 15-year milestone since we began protecting the Earth from asteroid impacts. With the support of a worldwide community of donors, B612 has educated, advocated, and worked towards science and technology solutions...
B612 Asteroid Institute Studies and Provides Data to 'Oumuamua Discovery [caption id="attachment_24497" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory, M. Kornmesser[/caption] SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 5, 2017) -- Within days of the announcement by NASA's Minor Planet Center of the discovery of the first-ever interstellar object, 'Oumuamua,...
Harold Reitsema, Asteroid Institute Mission Director, looks at the updated 2017 report from NASA on the threat from near-Earth objects (NEOs). NASA's Near-Earth Object Science Definition Team has released an update to a previous report on the threat posed by near-Earth objects that was released in 2003[1]. This report provides a more thorough...
Bryce Bolin, Senior Researcher at B612's Asteroid Institute, discusses 1I/'Oumuamua, the first interstellar asteroid discovery, and how the Asteroid Institute team is studying it. 'Oumuamua Mia! [caption id="attachment_24498" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory, M. Kornmesser[/caption] More than three weeks ago on October 18, 2017, the first interstellar object...