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; Retired Lieutenant Colonel, Russian Armed Forces

Alexander Misurkin

Cosmonaut; President, ROMSPACE; Chair, UN COPUOS

Dorin Prunariu

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

Simonetta Di Pippo

NASA Astronaut; Executive Director, Asteroid Institute; Co-founder, B612

Ed Lu

Chair, Asteroid Day Expert Panel; Physicist, Los Alamos National Lab

Mark Boslough

Senior Researcher, CNRS; Lead, Planetary Science, Côte d’Azur Observatory

Patrick Michel

NASA Astronaut; Engineer; Aquanaut; known as the Artist Astronaut

Nicole Stott

Particle physicist and software engineer, Institute for Astronomy of University of Hawaii; astronomer, Pan- STARRS

Robert Jedicke

Astronomer at University of Washington, LSST Performance Scientist, Asteroid Day Expert Panel

Lynne Jones

Apollo 9 astronaut, NASA; Co-founder, Asteroid Day; Co-founder, B612

Rusty Schweickart

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

Pete Worden

Physicist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Slava Turyshev

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy of Luxembourg

Etienne Schneider

Chair Asteroid Foundation, Space Resources Advisory Board

Georges Schmit

General Director of the European Space Agency

Johann-Dietrich Wörner

CEO, Luxembourg Space Agency & Head of Space Affairs, Ministry of the Economy

Marc Serres

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

Frans von der Dunk

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

Danica Remy

Programme Manager at the European Space Agency (ESA)

Ian Carnelli

Physicist, Head of the Department of Geo/Astrophysics at the National Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg

Eric Buttini

French astronaut, ESA; Head, ESA European Astronaut Centre

Michel Tognini

Senior Director, Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, California Academy of Sciences

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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