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April 13th, 2015
Credit: ESA
How best to defend planet Earth from menacing near Earth objects?
For five days this week you can hear experts on the topic by watching live transmissions from the International Academy of Astronautics 2015 Planetary Defense conference.
This event is being held this week – April 13-17 — in Frascati, Italy.
Recent progress and plans in planetary defense, near Earth object discovery and characterization, mitigation techniques and missions, impact effects that inform warning, mitigation and costs, and consequence management and education are on the agenda!
ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Scenario simulation
The conference also includes an exercise where participants simulate the decision-making process for developing deflection and civil defense responses to a hypothetical asteroid threat.
NASA has posted initial details of a threat to Earth posed by a fictitious asteroid. This simulated threat will be the subject of a tabletop exercise at the 2015 IAA Planetary Defense Conference. It is representative of what a real threatening asteroid scenario could look like.
Details are available at:
To drop into the meeting via the European Space Agency’s Web-TV go to:
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