Asteroid Day Live

ASTEROID DAY LIVE

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2019 ASTEROID DAY LIVE SPEAKERS

Program and additional speakers to be announced soon.

Russian cosmonaut

Alexander Misurkin

President of ROMSPACE, fmr Chairman UN COPUOS

Dorin Prunariu

Astrophysicist, Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Simonetta Di Pippo

Astronaut and co-founder of the B612 Foundation

Ed Lu

Chair of the Asteroid Day Expert Panel (ADXP). Physicist at Sandia National Laboratories

Mark Boslough

Senior Researcher at CNRS, Leader of the Planetary Science Team, Lagrange Laboratory, Côte d’Azur Observatory (France)

Nicole Stott

Development manager of Moving Object Processing System for the Pan-STARRS telescope on Maui

Robert Jedicke

Apollo 9 astronaut and Planetary Defense expert. Founder of B612

Rusty Schweickart

Executive Director, Breakthrough Starshot; former Director of NASA Ames Research Center

Pete Worden

Asteroid Day Expert Panel; LSST Solar System Science Collaboration Co-Chair

Lynne Jones

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy of Luxembourg

Etienne Schneider

Chair Asteroid Foundation, Space Resources Advisory Board

Georges Schmit

Board Director, Secretary, Treasurer, Co-Founder, Asteroid Day

Danica Remy

General Director of the European Space Agency

Johann-Dietrich Wörner

Director of Space Affairs at the Ministry of the Economy of Luxembourg

Marc Serres

Chair of Space Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s LL.M. Programme on Space

Frans von der Dunk

Programme Manager at the European Space Agency (ESA)

Asteroid Day is a UN-sanctioned global awareness campaign. This year thousands of self-organized events were hosted around the world. 48 hours of content and commentary from around the world were hosted by Prof. Brian Cox. He was joined by Astronauts, Experts, and Celebrities.

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EVENTS

500

COUNTRIES

1

EVENT ATTENDEES

280000

ONLINE PARTICIPANTS

2000000

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100X DECLARATION SIGNATORIES

Queen co-founder, legendary guitarist, astrophysicist.

Brian May

Global Recording Artist, Music Icon, Humanitarian.

Sarah Brightman

Artist, NASA Astronaut.

Nicole Stott

Science educator, television host.

Bill Nye

Evolutionary biologist, best-selling author.

Richard Dawkins

Professor of Particle Physics.

Brian Cox

NASA astronaut, engineer, S.T.E.A.M.

Leland Melvin

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Asteroid Day is a global program supporting thousands of independently organized events on June 30th, provides online educational asteroid resources 365 days a year and produces a 24-hour global broadcast with an all-star lineup called Asteroid Day LIVE from Luxembourg. Your financial support enables us to deliver these programs.

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