June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... trajectories of asteroids to see if any could have our name on them. A recurrence of Meteor Crater, Arizona, is what the B612 Foundation hopes to avoid. “We’ve been given a gift, and the gift is that we have the ability now to go out there...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... they are largely uncharted. NASA has in mind to launch a project called NEOCAM and the B612 Foundation (a private non-profit foundation with headquarters in the United States and dedicated to planetary defence against asteroids and other NEOs...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... to see if their orbits could intersect with Earth. There are millions of NEOs and, according to a report by the B612 Foundation at the global Meteor Conference in 2014, the probability of impact is at least four times greater than was previously...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
..., the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), the Association of Space Explorers, the B612 Foundation, NASA’s JPL cosmic hazards programmes, ESA’s Earthguard programme, the UN COPUOS Working Group on the Long Term...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... space billions of years ago [13][14][15], Earth is still hit by these Solar System leftovers on a regular basis. A study by the B612 Foundation revealed that, between 2000 and 2013, Earth was hit by 26 objects that exploded with a yield between...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... even a Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) - pronounced ‘same page’. We even have missions such as the B612 Foundation’s Sentinel Project that is planning to launch an infrared telescope that can scour the skies and give us warning...
