2013 IAA Planetary Defense Conference15-19 April 2013
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
http://iaaweb.org/content/view/492/661/Planetary Defense – Recent Progress & Plans
• Current national and international funded activities that support planetary defense
• Program status and plans (e.g., NASA’s NEO program, ESA’s SSA program)
• Current international agreements and coordination activities
NEO Discovery
• Discovery statistics and projections (ground-based & space-based)
• The status of next generation surveys (e.g., PanSTARRS and LSST)
• Advancements in utilizing archival and historical data
NEO Characterization
• Lessons learned from recent discoveries and close approaches
• Orbital refinements including non-gravitational effects and keyholes
• Physical characterization that informs mitigation
Mitigation Techniques & Missions
• Space technologies for asteroid deflection/disruption (e.g., new concepts, kinetic impactor GNC, astrodynamics, etc.)
• Flight validation/demonstration missions for planetary defense technologies
• Robotic and human NEO exploration mission planning and design (e.g., OSIRIS-REx, Hayabusa 2, etc.)
Impact Effects that Inform Warning, Mitigation & Costs
• Information from the geological record and recent history
• Consequences of ocean and land impacts
• Economic costs of impacts
Consequence Management & Education
• Policy or legal analysis that will affect or inform future mitigation plans
• Educating the public and the media on NEO detection, impact effects, mitigation missions, impact warnings
• Strategies for developing disaster response plans across international borders
• Lessons learned from regional and international disasters (e.g.: Fukushima, Chernobyl, Hurricane Katrina) that provide insights for planetary defense
