Could you help us with this asteroid? A planetary defense workshop to save the world and introducing the schweickart prize
Time: 10:15 - 11:25
Room: HAC Hall C
Format: Workshop
Have you heard about the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs? Want to help prevent it from happening again? Join this citizen-science workshop led by world experts in the field of planetary defense. Using various fictitious scenarios, we'll discuss different areas: technology, science, legal and media/communications to learn how to distinguish facts from fiction, and you can contribute! With your help and guided by the experts this workshop will explore different aspects to mitigate a NEO impact threat and how to avoid the fate of the dinosaurs.
Organizers
Alissa J. HADDAJI
Director, Boston Space Consortium; Lecturer in Space Law, Policy and Ethics
United States
Speakers
Frans VON DER DUNK
Professor of Space Law, College of Law, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
United States