The best thing the public can do is advocate for increased funding to accelerate asteroid discovery rates. Bennu will not hit Earth. At least not for hundreds of years, say scientists. But the slight odds of it happening have increased by a tiny percentage, thanks to...
An inspiration to women in STEM and to astronomers worldwide, Shoemaker’s discoveries helped educate the world on asteroids. [caption id="attachment_27557" align="alignleft" width="295"] Astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker 1929-2021[/caption] B612 and the Asteroid Institute express their deepest gratitude for the contributions Carolyn Shoemaker made in the field of astronomy...
Asteroid Institute researcher Dr. Sarah Greenstreet was featured in Physics Today describing how models and observations of asteroid orbits reveal their dynamic lives. [caption id="attachment_27528" align="aligncenter" width="359"] Photo of Asteroid Bennu (NASA / Goddard / University of Arizona)[/caption] In a feature article in Physics Today, Asteroid Institute...
The Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping project or ADAM is a platform for mapping, modeling, and analyzing asteroid observations and will form the basis for building future services such as mission planning, asteroid risk visualization, space navigation, and resource mapping. ADAM will primarily run from...
Have you ever wondered how an asteroid gets named? Asteroid Institute Researcher Dr. Sarah Greenstreet describes the asteroid recently named after her. From the first time I heard as a new graduate student that asteroids are often named after astronomers to recognize their contributions to the...
Danica Remy, B612 President, spoke at the 2021 Global Exploration Summit (GLEX) hosted in Portugal on the importance of one day mapping the solar system. The annual GLEX Summit, co-organized by The Explorers Club and Expanding World, brings together the world’s leading explorers to showcase...
ABOUT THIS EPISODE On the latest episode of the Boost VC podcast, Ed and host Adam Draper have a conversation that covers it all! Listen in as they discuss what makes space fun, Ed’s training to command a Soyuz in just 9 weeks, thoughts on colonizing...
Leading up to Asteroid Day, on June 15, Asteroid Institute Executive Director Dr. Ed Lu joined hosts Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett on Relay FM’s “Liftoff,” a fortnightly podcast about space, the universe, and everything. With thoughtful and engaging questions from Jason and Stephen, Ed...
Meet Allan Posner, an engineer and astrodynamicist at the Asteroid Institute, who’s focused on the ADAM project. You might have read Allan’s blogpost about Asteroid 2018 VP1; if not, you can find it here. Allan is an integral member of the Asteroid Institute team, previously holding...
[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_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_27339" align="aligncenter" width="700"] 156 Tunguska sized or larger Near-Earth-Asteroids were discovered in our simulation of year-one LSST operations that periodically pass close enough to Earth’s orbit to pose a collision risk. Most of...