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Brown agrees that the true hit rate for asteroids of that size is probably more frequent than past estimates, but he's cautious about the B612 Foundation's once-a-century number.
The B612 Foundation get its name from “The Little Prince,” the 1943 French novella whose main character hailed from a small asteroid designated on Earth as B612. Co-founded in 2002 by former ...
California-based non-profit B612 Foundation has announced its intention to place an asteroid-hunting infrared telescope into orbit around the Sun. Named Sentinel, the ambitious endeavor is to be ...
WASHINGTON — The B612 Foundation, which once sought to privately develop a large space observatory to search for potentially hazardous near Earth objects (NEOs), is now studying an alternative ...
The B612 Foundation has released a video depicting the distribution of 26 asteroid impacts known to have struck the Earth since the year 2000. Many of the impacts detected exploded with a force ...
The nonprofit B612 Foundation says it is continuing efforts to develop a space telescope to search for near-Earth asteroids despite fundraising challenges and a recent NASA decision to terminate a … ...
The B612 Foundation sets up an Asteroid Institute to focus on threats from near-Earth objects – and gives the University of Washington a leading role. Toggle search box Toggle navigation.
NASA is parting ways with the B612 Foundation — the organization hoping to build a spacecraft to hunt down Earth-destroying asteroids, SpacePolicyOnline reports.NASA had a Space Act Agreement ...
B612 Foundation. Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks. A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it ...
Leaders of the nonprofit B612 Foundation today took the wraps off a campaign to fund and launch a space telescope to hunt for potential killer asteroids — a campaign they portrayed as a cosmic ...
The foundation also received a grant from Tito’s Handmade Vodka that will match up to $1 million from other donors. B612 and Dr. Lu are now not just trying to save the world.