6th International Academy of Astronautic Conference, Livestreamed

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If you have the time to watch what I have seen today is very interesting. Discussions on detecting a dealing with possible hazardous asteroids. https://sservi.nasa.gov/event/2019-iaa-planetary-defense-conference-live-stream/

Going on now Monday 5:15 pm EST

 

[gleem]

The talks following the morning break Tuesday are updates on the NEO PHA " Apophis" close encounter with the Earth on April 13(Friday), 2029. It is expected to come within about 6 Earth radii of the Earth. It is a once in 1000 yr event It is 340 m in width and will be visible to the unaided eye and 5X the size of the Tunguska body.

 

[gleem]

I tracked down the whole (preliminary?) program for the conference http://pdc.iaaweb.org/?q=ipc