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...
Hank Grabowski is an Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicist and Principal Systems Engineer working on the Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping project (ADAM) at the Asteroid Institute. With a 20+ year history in the software and astrodynamics industry, Hank brings a wealth of experience with building scalable software...
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Asteroid Institute Moving Astrodynamics at Scale Forward by Hank Grabowski A hackathon is a modern software development practice of bringing together a team to spend a couple of days focusing on a handful of specific goals. This helps focus efforts for a brief period of time, usually...
We are pleased to publish B612's annual progress report. 2019 has been an important year for B612, the Asteroid Institute, and the field of asteroid science and education. In the report, we share updates about the investments our supporters enable. With your help, we work to...