The Asteroid Institute, a program of the B612 Foundation, is a research and development organization focused on planetary defense against asteroids and advancing the economic development of space. The institute brings together scientists, engineers, and researchers to develop tools and technologies for understanding, mapping, and navigating the solar system, with a focus on asteroid discovery, characterization, and impact monitoring. Key activities involve developing open-source astrodynamics platforms like ADAM (Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping) and algorithms like THOR to analyze data and discover new asteroids using cloud computing. The Asteroid Institute partners with organizations like Google Cloud and the University of Washington.
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The Asteroid Institute and the University of Washington’s Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology are developing computational tools to detect NEOs in other types of astronomical imagery if those datasets provide five to six views of an area within 15 to 30 days.