To combat a space-based threat, try a space-based solution. Non-profit B612 Foundation steps up to fill the killer-asteroid monitoring gap. Read the Article: "Non-Profit Steps Up to Fill Killer-Asteroid Monitoring Gap" WIRED (June 28, 2012) ...
Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Music: "Overture From Tannhauser" by London Symphony Orchestra With Wyn Morris (AmazonMP3 • iTunes)...
NASA Advisory Council Task Force on Planetary Defense found that the most effective way to map asteroid threats and meet goals of the George E. Brown Act is with an infrared telescope in a venus-like solar orbit....
NASA report to Congress on asteroid surveys and deflection stirred considerable controversy because it chose not to recommend a program to support the George E Brown survey goal and because of its technically flawed deflection analysis. Read the full report here....
White papers and presentations submitted by B612 members to update Congress on progress detecting asteroids larger than 140 meters. These findings were presented at NASA NEO Workshop held in Vail CO, June 26-28, 2006 in response to the congressional requirement for an initial report on...
Today, former B612 co-founder Dr. Ed Lu and fellow former NASA astronaut Dr. Stanley Love published a proposal for the Gravity Tractor method for altering an asteroid’s trajectory in Nature Vol. 438. Their method describes how a spacecraft could use its own gravitational pull to...
American Scientist article on the need for Planetary Defense from asteroids by Rusty Schweickart and Clark Chapman...
"B612's early thinking on asteroid deflection: ""The Asteroid Tugboat""...