#asteroidinstitute — Public Fediverse posts

This is not to be confused with ADAM, a software package for reconstructing asteroids' shapes from lightcurves and other data: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2015/04/aa25259-14/aa25259-14.html

Acronyms often end up overloaded.

QT Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 @b612-asteroid.bsky.social‬
2025 October 15

Big news from our #AsteroidInstitute 🚀 The ADAM Platform is now online with a user portal to save history, work within your org and connect via API. https://b612.ai/adam-platform/

https://bsky.app/profile/b612-asteroid.bsky.social/post/3m3auwu6en226

#AsteroidInstitute’s Asteroid ☄️ Discovery Analysis and Mapping (#ADAM) Platform has been in preparation for the @VRubinObs’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (#LSST) survey 🔭, which will produce about 20 terabytes of data 💽 every night https://b612foundation.org/chelyabinsk-and-the-changing-landscape-of-planetary-defense/

#Chelyabinsk #PlanetaryDefense #AsteroidThreat

Asteroid will miss Earth — but may set off lunar light show
Although astronomers have ruled out a smash-up between Earth and an asteroid known as 2024 YR4 in the year 2032, the building-sized space rock still has a chance of hitting the moon. In fact, the chances — slight as they are — have doubled in the past month.

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https://cosmiclog.com/2025/04/07/asteroid-will-miss-earth-but-may-set-off-lunar-light-show/
#UniverseToday #AsteroidInstitute #Asteroids #B612Foundation #Moon #Space

Asteroid hunters make 27,500 new finds in old data
A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid discovery candidates — not by making fresh observations of the night sky, but by sifting t
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/05/01/asteroid-hunters-make-27500-new-finds-in-old-data/
#GeekWire #AsteroidInstitute #Asteroids #B612Foundation #DIRACInstitute #Google #RubinObservatory #UniversityOfWashington

#AsteroidInstitute / #University of #Washington / #OpenSpace Project - #Asteroid discoveries 🔭 from Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFvf86SM7CY

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks - With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/science/killer-asteroids-algorithm.html #computersandtheinternet #spaceandastronomy #asteroidinstitute #solarsystem #asteroids #googleinc #research