Where
This is an hybrid event (Afternoon Session) (The Morning Session is Online Only).
Afternoon In-person attendance:
Geology Building, Room 3697 (Meteorite Gallery), or Room 3806 (EPSS Office)
595 Charles Young Drive East
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Zoom connection information will be provided in the confirmation email after registration / RSVP.
Contact
Events/Program Chair, LA, AIAA Los Angeles Las Vegas section
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Los Angeles - Las Vegas Section
949-426-8175
events.aiaalalv@gmail.com
and also,
AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section
Planetary Defense Planetary Defense and Asteroid Exploration mini-Conference 2022
(Morning Session : Online Only)
(Aftenoon Session : Hybrid Event)
with a guided tour + self tours to the UCLA Meteorite Collection/Gallery!
Saturday, June 18, 2022, 10 AM PDT
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2021-2022 marked another impressive year in Planetary Defense and Asteroid Exploration! We invite you and your family to get together, in person or online, in our Annual Gathering / Assembly on Planetary Defense and Asteroid Exploration this year (2022)! This year, we are so excited to arrange a guided tour (plus self-tours) during the event to the amazing UCLA Meteorite Gallery! You will get the closer encounters with the actual items from space and see them in front of your eyes! You will also get to hear from the leading experts and protectors of the Earth/Solar Systems from UCLA EPSS, Aerospace Corp., NASA, and more, to learn more about the exciting progresses like NASA's DART Mission, JAXA's Hayabusa2 etc. You will also learn from the experts about the new progresses in this important and exciting field, how to mitigate, along with some updates on the observation / tracking. It will be fun and bring closer to subject(s), issues, and threats/readiness.
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Tentative Agenda (All Time PDT (Pacific Daylight-Saving Time (US and Canada))
(Afternoon Session: Part I: UCLA EPSS Speakers and Meteorite Gallery tours)
Dr. Nahum MelamedAIAA Distinguished Lecturer/SpeakerProject Leader, Guidance and Control Subdivision,
The Aerospace Corporation
(Non-UCLA Session Moderator)
"NEO Deflection App"|"Planetary Defense Workshop and Team Exercises"
Prof. Kevin McKeegan
Distinguished ProfessorInstitute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsDepartment of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
(UCLA Session Moderator)
Dr. Alan Rubin
Researcher - Curatorretired and recalled adjunct professor and curator of the UCLA Meteorite Collection
Dr. Andy Rivkin
Investigation Team Lead for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
"Planetary Defenders: Protecting the Planet with The Double Asteroid Redirection Test"
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), NASA's first flight demonstration for planetary defense, seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid threat. The mission aims to shift an asteroid's orbit through a kinetic impact – specifically, by impacting the DART spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos to change its orbital speed. Though the Didymos asteroid system poses no threat to our planet, it is the ideal target for this experiment; despite being 6.8 million miles away, Didymos is still close enough to Earth where it will be observable through ground-based telescopes before and after impact. DART is currently being assembled and tested at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in preparation for launch in November 2021, followed by the kinetic impact into the asteroid in fall of 2022.
Bio: Andy Rivkin is one of two Investigation Team Leads for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). He is an expert in asteroid studies with a focus on determining their compositions from telescopic measurements. Rivkin got his PhD in Planetary Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1997, and has been at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory since 2005. When not working, he’s likely to be watching baseball or noodling on his guitar.
Prof. Madhu Thangavelu
Director and Faculty Member, USC / ISU
"Novel Opportunistic Missions for NEO Exploration."
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Mr. Benjamin Wright
Engineering Specialist, Guidance and Control Subdivision,
The Aerospace Corporation
Ms. Roxanna Pakkar
Member of Technical Staff, Guidance and Control Subdivision,
The Aerospace Corporation
Ms. Monica Maynard
LA School District STEM Director;
STEM Office, The Aerospace Corp.
“Planetary Defense Team Exercises”
Mr. Philip Groves
"Asteroid Hunters" IMAX Producer & Writer, Photo51, LLC
"Fostering public support for planetary defense through media"
