ASTEROID DAY PANEL WITH THE ASSOCIATION OF SPACE EXPLORERS, June 29, 2021, virtual, 1:oo pm ET

The Association of Space Explorers (ASE) will hold a virtual event on June 29, 2021 at 12:00 pm Central Time (1:00 pm Eastern) to commemorate International Asteroid Day on June 30 (as declared by the United Nations in 2016).

The topic is “Defending Planet Earth: The Association of Space Explorers Celebrates Asteroid Day.”

Speakers are:

• Lindley Johnson, NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer
  
• Tom Jones, veteran NASA astronaut and asteroid scientist 
• Kelly Fast, program manager for NASA’s NEO Observations Program
• David Kring, Principal Scientist, Lunar & Planetary Institute
• Elena Adams, DART Mission Systems Engineer

More information including registration information is on the event’s website.

One must pre-register to get the Zoom link to watch.