International Treaty for Moon Farside Protection
Time: 13:45 - 14:55
Room: HAC Hall C
Format: Workshop
This Special Session advocates the support by all scientists working in different areas of science to submit the UNO an international treaty for the Moon Farside protection:
- COSMOLOGY needs the radio quietness to pick up the feeble radiation of the hydrogen line down-shifted to MHz or kHz frequencies
- ASTROBIOLOGY studies pre-biological interstellar molecules by virtue of their roto-vibrational spectra
- SETI needs radio quietness to possibly detect Alien Civilizations “signatures”
- PLANETARY DEFENSE. The seeing from the Moon is wonderful. Thus, optical telescopes pointing at the (blocked) Sun would enable high-accuracy measurements of the orbital parameters of NEOs
Organizer
Facilitator
Speakers
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Chuen Chern LOO
Head, Space Publication and Registration Division, Radiocommunication Bureau, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Switzerland
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Jack O. BURNS
Professor, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado at Boulder
United States
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PJ BLOUNT
Lecturer in Law, Executive Secretary, Cardiff University, International Institute of Space Law (IISL)
United Kingdom