The B612 team would like to thank everyone who helped support our end-of-year fundraising campaign! [caption id="attachment_960" align="aligncenter" width="250"] It's a Kerbal Guy![/caption] We received gifts from people from over 20 countries around the world, showing the true global reach of this dedicated community of asteroid hunters....
Written by Hillary Aiken “I am supporting B612 on behalf of my grandfather, Howard Sears: in honor of his encouraging us to search for knowledge, and to work to improve the lives of others.” Ruth Sears With supporters from across the globe, we have the great honor...
We have good news to report. The field of Planetary Defense has taken a step forward with the announcement of the formation of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) within NASA. This new office was created in response to the highly critical report by the...
B612 Foundation applauds NASA’s recent announcement of the formation of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office. NASA's new planetary defense coordination office has a critical role not only in coordination but importantly in funding projects for asteroid detection and deflection. There are an estimated one million...
2015 saw tremendous advances in B612's education, advocacy, science and technology efforts. This year, our Sentinel technical team discovered new optimizations of Sentinel's capabilities (see Lunar Planetary Conference), and we continue to believe that Sentinel is the best technical solution to the asteroid discovery problem. We...
Despite its capacity for serious harm, asteroid impact is not the largest existential threat we face right now. Climate change, resource limits, pandemics, nuclear war, societal breakdown, earthquakes and tsunamis are even more alarming. What distinguishes the asteroid threat is that mitigation is seemingly straightforward,...
Josh Goldstein investigates why people will pay more money to see a movie about Asteroids than for a protection system to prevent dangerous asteroid impacts. In an interview with Ed Lu for Planet Money, on NPR's All Things Considered, Lu talks about a two-step process: first...
Preventing Armageddon: The Economic Hurdles Of Asteroid Defense. “Some scientists say we should be doing more to protect the Earth from asteroids. The technical issues are relatively easy, but the economics of asteroid defense are much harder.” Listen to the Podcast: Play in new window | Read...
Asteroid Day Expert Panelist, B612 Chair Emeritus and Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart at the California Academy of Sciences on June 30, 2015. Photo by Donald Kinney. Rusty Schweickart, in conversation with B612 Foundation COO Danica Remy, talks about the recent Asteroid Day events around the...
The aim of Asteroid Day is to inform the public and raise awareness about the possibility that asteroids can collide with the Earth in the future. Today was chosen to highlight the risk because on the same day in 1908, a 30m object entered the...