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On June 29 the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the local professional section, the Los Angeles – Las Vegas Section, will discuss various aspects of Planetary Defense and Asteroid Exploration. Other topics of discussion will be the recent exciting news about discovery of the first interstellar “asteroid”, and the OSIRIS-REx and JAXA’s Hayabusa2 missions as well as legal aspects / space laws related to asteroids.
Featured speakers(in alphabetical orders) include:
Planetary Defense (Morning) Sessions
Dr. William H. Ailor (The Aerospace Corporation)
“Overview and Summary of the 2019 IAA Planetary Defense Conference”
Dr. Paul W. Chodas (Director, Center for Near Earth Object Studies, NASA JPL)
“Introduction of the PDC Scenario”
“How the scenario evolved and concluded”
Dr. Davide Farnocchia (Solar System Dynamics Group, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
“Orbit determination and impact hazard assessment for near-Earth objects”
Philip Groves (“Asteroid Impact” IMAX Producer & Writer, Apophis Pictures, LLC)
“Fostering public support for planetary defense through media”
Dr. Nahum Melamed (The Aerospace Corporation)
“Introduction and NEOs Deflection App Workshop”
(Attendees need to bring own’s laptop with WiFi capabilities)
Prof. Madhu Thangavelu (USC)
“Evolving A Planetary Defense Capability through Orbital Debris Mitigation”
“Establishing An Earth-Moon Planetary Defense Architecture”
Qicheng Zhang (Caltech Div. Geological and Planetary Sciences)
“Directed Energy Methods for Planetary Defense” (Based on the work at UCSB led by Prof. Philip Lubin)
Asteroid Exploration (Afternoon) Sessions
Dr. Niraj K. Inamdar (RAND Corporation)
“Visitors from Our Solar and Galactic Neighborhood:
ʻOumuamua and the Possibility of Visits by Rocks from Exoplanetary Systems'”
Eric Mahr (The Aerospace Corporation)
“OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Mission Overview”
James Soroka (Law Offices of J W Soroka)
“Space Laws and Legal Aspects of Planetary Defense and Asteroid Exploration”
