The Asteroid Challenge: Will We Be Ready?
28 January, 2012
Rusty Schweickart
B612 Response to NASA’s 2007 NEO Report to Congress Stirs Controversy
B612 responds to NASA NEO report to Congress and points out technical flaws. NASA’s NEO report to Congress stirred considerable controversy due to both its rejection of Congress’s request for a recommended program to support the new Spaceguard Survey goal and its technically flawed deflection analysis....
01 May, 2007
B612 Presents Findings on Near-Earth Object Detection at NASA NEO Workshop in Vail CO, June 26-28, 2006
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...
01 June, 2006
Better Collision Insurance published in American Scientist in Sept-Oct 2005
American Scientist article on the need for Planetary Defense from asteroids by Rusty Schweickart and Clark Chapman...
01 October, 2005
US Senate testimony of Rusty Schweickart and Ed Lu
Testimony to Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space on the subject of Planetary Defense by B612 leaders....
07 April, 2004