B612’s Asteroid Education program increases awareness about asteroids and science through public speaking and exposure in the media. In addition to Asteroid Day, in 2023 we shared stories about our work and why the world should learn more about asteroids. PRESENTATIONS + PRESS March | Dr. Ed...
Asteroid Institute engineer Kathleen Kiker speaks on Precovery, a service of ADAM, at the 2022 LSST European Conference. Asteroid Institute, a program of B612, and partner of LSST and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, virtually joined speakers at this year’s LSST@Europe 4 conference in Rome, Italy....
The B612 Asteroid Institute’s Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) project continues to make progress. The acronym for our ADAM project has also evolved (replacing Machine with Mapping). This can be summarized by an article in the Financial Times on the need for mapping the...
For the second year in a row, B612 sponsored the LSST Solar System Readiness Sprint, a convening of scientists ensuring the readiness of the scientific community to interpret LSST’s solar system data when it begins operation. One of the largest telescopes on Earth, the Large Synoptic...
By: Danica Remy, President Last week, an asteroid about 100 meters in diameter, Asteroid 2019 OK, sped past Earth at a distance of about 70,000 kilometers. The asteroid safely missed our planet, but at 70,000 kilometers, Asteroid 2019 OK came quite close - much closer than...
Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) recently hosted Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicists John Carrico and Mike Loucks on their podcast. AGI is a leader in creating software for the aerospace and defense industries. John and Mike go into the Asteroid Institute’s latest research on propagating asteroid orbits and predicting...
Asteroid Institute is the only nonprofit organization in the world dedicated to asteroid science and to protecting the Earth from asteroid impacts B612 recognizes Meteor Crater Enterprises and The Barringer Crater Company for a long partnership in bringing “learning journeys” to the best-preserved impact crater site...
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B612 Asteroid Institute attended the LSST’s Solar System Science Collaboration meeting on July 10-12, 2018 at the University of Washington in Seattle. The B612 Asteroid Institute’s development of the Asteroid Decision and Analysis Mapping (ADAM) platform is largely motivated by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey...
Salon.com recently posted an article on building a better asteroid warning system featuring interviews with B612 President Danica Remy and Asteroid Institute Astrodynamicist John Carrico. The article looks at B612’s partnership with Google Cloud and how cloud technology is necessary to provide a more advanced warning...