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Asteroid Institute Carries Out First Virtual ADAM Hack-a-thon of 2021

[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...

10 March, 2021
Dr. Ed Lu’s “Cosmic Conversation” with the California Academy of Sciences

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...

20 February, 2021
Asteroid Institute | ADAM: Kathleen Kiker

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...

02 February, 2021
2020 | Asteroid Institute | Annual Report

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...

10 November, 2020
Asteroid 2018 VP1 – So Close, Yet So Far Away by Allan Posner

Have you ever been asked a question to which your truthful response is: “Well, that depends…”?  It happens all of the time.  For example, your availability to meet with someone might depend upon factors as diverse as adjacent meetings, the weather, etc.  Sometimes, prediction is,...

30 October, 2020
Sampling the Surface of Asteroid Bennu by Scott Manley

On October 20th OSIRIS-REx will grab a sample of asteroid Bennu which has been in space since the earliest days of the solar system.  For the last few years the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been carefully studying and surveying the small asteroid Bennu, looking for a spot...

01 October, 2020
Good News, 2018 VP1 Hitting Earth is Nothing to Worry About

While 2020 has handed out plenty of things to worry about, asteroid 2018 VP1 hitting Earth on November 2nd isn’t one of them. You’ve probably seen the sensationalist headlines of a potential Earth impacting asteroid heading our way on November 2, the day before the United...

24 August, 2020
B612 Sponsors Collaboration Focused on use of LSST Dataset

The ADAM research and development team participated in the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) Readiness Sprint 3. B612 Foundation has been a sponsor of the Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) sprints since their inception.  This support enables the collaboration to be prepared for when LSST...

06 August, 2020
Asteroid Institute | ADAM: Joachim Moeyens

Meet Institute Researcher and University of Washington Graduate Student, Joachim Moeyens. Joachim is an Asteroid Institute Researcher and graduate student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Joachim is interested in big data and software driven solutions to problems in astronomy. During his...

27 July, 2020
Dynamical Study of an Asteroid Orbit by Dr. Sarah Greenstreet

  [caption id="attachment_26834" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Image credits: NASA/JPL[/caption] Asteroid Institute Senior Researcher studies the stability of an asteroid with an orbit closer to Sun than that of Venus. On 4 January 2020, the Zwicky Transient Facility discovered the first asteroid with an orbit closer to the Sun than...

10 May, 2020
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