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...
[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_column_text]By: Kathleen Kiker and Carise Fernandez One of the goals of research at the Asteroid Institute is to make interpretation of asteroid data open and accessible. As part of that goal, we also believe in the importance of open...
On February 12, 2021, just 3 days before the 8-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk asteroid blast, Asteroid Institute Executive Director and B612 co-founder Dr. Ed Lu joined Ryan Wyatt of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences for a “Cosmic Conversation.” The California...
Last year the Asteroid Institute expanded its engineering team with the hire of software engineer, Kathleen Kiker. Kathleen joined the ADAM team from Lockheed Martin where she led the development for the latest releases of large-scale Fortran and C++ physics modelling codes to run on...
In a year that can only be described as turbulent, we are happy to share progress and news in our 2020 annual progress report. This year required a lot of pivoting and uneasy transitions for our families, communities, and the world. The unprecedented events of...