inner solar system

Mapping the Final Frontier with ADAM

Dr. Ed Lu of the B612 Asteroid Institute, explains how mapping the inner solar system with the ADAM project can help us recognize asteroid threats and opportunities. With Asteroid Day 2018  just around the corner, Dr. Ed Lu recently spoke to PC Magazine about several...

Asteroids | Why We Need to Map the Inner Solar System

Financial Times published an article written by B612 president Danica Remy and Asteroid Institute executive director Ed Lu. The article advocates for mapping the inner solar system. In the article, Remy and Lu wrote: "Our priority for developing the space frontier is in building a comprehensive...

Ryan Wyatt’s talk at Asteroid Day 2015 in San Francisco

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...

Meteorites and Impact Craters | Geoff Notkin

Described by the media as "one of the rock stars of science," Geoff Notkin hosts Science Channel's award-winning adventure series Meteorite Men and the Emmy Award-winning STEM Journals. He is also an internationally recognized authority on meteorites, an award-winning author and photographer, a musician, world...

Scientists worldwide mark first annual Asteroid Day with stark warnings

Scientists around the world held what they billed as the first annual Asteroid Day on Tuesday, giving lectures and hosting panel discussions promoting projects designed to detect threats from space before it’s too late. The scientists who organized the events said humans must do a better...

Why one former astronaut is trying to save the world from asteroids

"Yesterday, an article released on NASA's website reported a 500 meter-wide asteroid passed within 745,000 miles of Earth. As far as we know, another rock of this size won't pass that closely again until 2027. But we don't know that for sure." Vox takes a look at how...

Pathways to Flying the Sentinel Mission—SODA, anyone?

By Dr. Marc Buie, Sentinel Mission Scientist It may not be completely obvious but flying a successful space mission takes a lot of work. Space is a hostile and difficult to access region. A spacecraft must be carefully designed to do the work desired and then...

Asteroid Orbits 1

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Asteroid Orbits 2

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Asteroid Orbits 3

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