Emerging and Current Asteroid Science on Asteroid Day LIVE 2019

Описание: Emerging and Current Asteroid Science

This panel will discuss everything asteroid related: from planetary science, meteorites, recent asteroid explosions, proposed space missions and new telescopes, even to the effects, consequences and risks of asteroid impacts and airbursts. Additionally, the panel will discuss the challenges of communicating asteroid risks and the role of the media.

Host: Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut, NASA; Co-founder, Asteroid Day; Co-founder, B61

Speakers:

Robert Jedicke, Particle physicist and software engineer, Institute for Astronomy of University of Hawaii; astronomer, Pan- STARRS
Lynne Jones, Astronomer & Performance Scientist for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), University of Washington, Asteroid Day Expert Panel
Dr. Mark Boslough, Chair, Asteroid Day Expert Panel; Physicist, Los Alamos National Lab
Prof. Christian Koeberl, University Professor, Chair in Impact Research and Planetary Geology at the University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Patrick Michel, Senior Researcher, CNRS; Lead, Planetary Science, Côte d’Azur Observatory

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