B612 Foundation Announces Inaugural Schweickart Prize Winner Joe DeMartini, an astronomy Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland (UMD), is awarded the Schweickart Prize for his outstanding leadership and innovative planetary defense proposal. San Francisco, June 28, 2024 /PRnewswire/ – B612 Foundation announces today the first Schweickart...
In the upcoming book The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration, Dr. Ed Lu and other distinguished members such as former president Teddy Roosevelt, Dr. Jane Goodall, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin, tell their inspiring stories of modern exploration. Dr....
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6btgPqRod1c[/embedyt] In his TEDxSonomaCounty talk, B612 Foundation co-founder and Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart discusses the concept of “cosmic birth”, how humanity came into existence together, and how we must work together to protect the evolutionary future of life. Rusty takes us on a journey...
[caption id="attachment_29557" align="alignleft" width="800"] Alec Koumjian led the team at the Spring Hackathon at the Googleplex campus in Palo Alto.[/caption] The Asteroid Institute has named Alec Koumjian Head of Software Engineering. In his new position, he will spearhead a team of scientists and engineers dedicated to...
On the ten-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk event, we asked esteemed science journalist Stuart Clark to help tell the story of this meteorite bolide and the instrumental changes it instigated in how individuals, governments, and space agencies think about asteroid threats. An internationally read author,...
For 20 years B612 advocated for a deflection technology demonstration mission. Scientists and experts gather, discuss and watch the historic DART impact. On September 26, humanity took an important step forward in our ability to protect planet Earth from asteroid impacts. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection...
Nine years ago today, an asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. It was only about 20 meters in diameter (or 55-65 feet) — by meteor and asteroid standards, pretty small, but as you may remember, it packed a punch. The explosion injured over 1,500 people and...
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...
By Peter Schwartz and Dr. Ed Lu Humanity is about to take an important step forward in our ability to protect planet Earth from asteroid impacts. The DART probe (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will demonstrate a method of changing the velocity of an asteroid, a capability...
An inspiration to women in STEM and to astronomers worldwide, Shoemaker’s discoveries helped educate the world on asteroids. [caption id="attachment_27557" align="alignleft" width="295"] Astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker 1929-2021[/caption] B612 and the Asteroid Institute express their deepest gratitude for the contributions Carolyn Shoemaker made in the field of astronomy...