WASHINGTON (AP) — The fireball that streaked through the Michigan sky put on quite a show but as far as potentially killer space rocks, it was merely a flash in the pan. There are much bigger asteroids careening through our solar system. Scientists who watch for...
(REVISED) B612 Response to National Science and Technology Council report and NASA Discovery Mission selection Last week brought news for the field of planetary defense and the worldwide effort to protect the Earth from large and dangerous asteroid impacts. First, the “National Near Earth Object Preparedness Strategy” report...
On October 3rd and 4th, B612 co-sponsored a Near-Earth Object (NEO) workshop at the University of Washington in Seattle. The workshop is the first time that members of B612’s technical team, researchers and scientists from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), NEO researchers from NASA,...
A new set of analysis tools for predicting the performance of telescopes for finding and tracking Near Earth Asteroids was published by B612 Foundation in the Astronomical Journal. The article was authored by B612 Mission, Scientist Marc W. Buie; B612 Mission Director, Harold J. Reitsema;...
B612 published an OpEd in Space News discussing the milestone reached with NEOCam and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) potentially able to track 90 percent of asteroids larger than 140 meters and declaring our support for NEOCam’s construction. The full text is below: There is...
Dr. Peter Jenniskens is an expert on meteor showers and author of Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets, a 790 page book containing predictions on what unusual meteor showers to expect in the next 50 years. Peter is best known for his recovery of fragments of...
As Director of Morrison Planetarium, Ryan oversees the largest all-digital full dome planetarium in the world that uses real data and revolutionary technologies to transform the way Earth-bound audiences experience the universe. After earning an undergraduate degree in Astronomy from Cornell University and studying for a...
Dr. Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research at the the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. Inspired by a book about the solar system he read at the age of ten, he began his career with a...
Clark Chapman is a planetary scientist whose research has specialized in studies of asteroids and cratering of planetary surfaces, using telescopes, spacecraft, and computers. He is a past Chair of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society and was the first...
David Morrison is the Senior Scientist of the new Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), located in the NASA Research Park at Ames Research Center. The Lunar Science Institute will link competitively-selected science teams across the nation working together to help lead the agency’s...