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...
Danica Remy, B612 President, was interviewed by NBCNews.com about the recent asteroid flybys. Danica highlighted that the risk to Earth from asteroids is small in the short-term, but it is inevitable in the long-term and for the first time in human history we have the technology...
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...
Asteroid Institute Executive Director Dr. Ed Lu recently spoke at Long Now Foundation’s Interval Bar to make the case that humanity needs a map of Near-Earth Asteroids. Long Now’s Executive Director Zander Rose hosted the talk. Dr. Lu explained how previous frontiers have only been explored with...
Asteroid Institute Mission Director Harold Reitsema recently presented at the National Academies of Science on the work that B612 has done on space-based asteroid observation missions. The National Academies of Sciences has been tasked to explore the capabilities of space-based telescopes, including exploring the relative advantages...
Six years ago, a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia injuring over 1,500 people and damaging 7,000 buildings across six cities. This event caused people around the world to ask: What are we doing about asteroids? The answer is: A whole lot. Scientists at the Asteroid Institute are building detection tools to...
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...