B612 Foundation California
07.08.2025 - 18:00:32B612 Foundation Announces Winner of Prestigious Schweickart Prize: Imperial College London's Jordan Stone Leads Winning Proposal for International Panel on Asteroid Orbit Alteration, Recognized for its Foresight in Planetary Defense
Further details on the winning proposal can be found at schweickartprize.org. Event information for Flagstaff Asteroid Day at Meteor Crater and Lowell Observatory is available on the Asteroid Day Arizona website.
About B612 Foundation and the Schweickart Prize
The Schweickart Prize, a program of B612, is an annual award to foster a new generation of leaders in planetary defense and to encourage ideas to help protect Earth from potential asteroid impacts. The prize is named after Russell "Rusty" Schweickart, renowned Apollo 9 astronaut, co-founder of the Association of Space Explorers, and co-founder of B612. For more information, visit Schweickartprize.org. The founding sponsors who have generously funded the Schweickart Prize program include Anousheh Ansari, Barringer Crater Company, Future Ventures, Geoffrey Notkin, Jurvetson Family Foundation, Meteor Crater, Randy Schweickart and Michelle Heng, and Rusty B. Schweickart and Joanne Keys.
Since 2002, B612 has developed tools and technologies to understand, map, and navigate our solar system and protect our planet from asteroid impacts through its Asteroid Institute program and supporting educational programs, including Asteroid Day and the Schweickart Prize. Leadership Circle members, including Laurie Girand and Scott McGregor, William K. Bowes, Jr Foundation, Tito's CHEERS, and Maryann and John Montrym, alongside Founding Circle and Asteroid Circle members and individual donors from 46 countries, support the work financially. For more information, visit B612foundation.org or follow on social: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Bluesky.
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