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New Alliance Forged to Create Asteroid Warning System

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United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs Report on Near Earth Objects

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Astronauts, Asteroids and Ed’s Vision by Danica Remy

I joined B612 five years ago because I wanted to be part of a global effort that was different, inspirational and pioneering. I wanted to be part of a movement that could literally change the world. At that point in my life, I wasn’t an...

Dr. Ed Lu comments on Michigan meteor and Planetary Defense

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...

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B612 co-sponsors the first Near-Earth Object Modeling Workshop

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,...

We Can Save Ourselves From Earth-Killing Asteroids, But Someone Has to Pay

At the Planetary Defense Conference of 2015, Newsweek investigated whether impacts from dangerous asteroids can be stopped and who was going to pay. One of the Americans who has played a central role in the development of planetary defense is B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart. Read the Article: "We...

The Nominal Sentinel Orbit

The Sentinel orbit is a long way from Earth, so it won’t observe the same objects that ground-based telescopes are looking at. But it will find objects that are a large distance from Earth. The Nominal Sentinel Orbit is the Sentinel orbit, which is at the...

Space Telescope Concepts Seek To Detect Smaller Near-Earth Asteroids

WASHINGTON — A privately funded space telescope originally proposed to search for larger near-Earth asteroids may also be effective in detecting smaller, but more numerous and potentially more dangerous, such objects. In a presentation at the International Academy of Astronautics’ Planetary Defense Conference in Frascati, Italy,...

Sentinel’s Mission to Find 500,000 Near-Earth Asteroids

Humankind lives in a cosmic shooting gallery. For evidence of that, we need look no further than the events of 15 February 2013. On that day, a medium-size asteroid was set to pass some 28,000 kilometers from Earth, unusually close and well within the orbits...