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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
Dr. Sarah Greenstreet’s research collaboration with DIRAC Institute at the University of Washington was published in the journal Icarus. In 2018, B612 launched the Asteroid Institute Research Fellows program in partnership with the DIRAC Institute at the University of Washington. In the two years after it...