Exploring Asteroids in our Solar System
About this Event

Date: Sept 17, 2020
Time: 5:30 - 7:00PM ET/2:30 PM PT

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum will present a Virtual Astronomy Live program a virtual event that explores Asteroids in our Solar System. Asteroids may be small but studying them could help scientists unravel some big mysteries. The space rocks are fossils from the birth of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago — celestial fragments that never managed to grow into planets. Currently, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx’s mission is actually scheduled to land on the asteroid Bennu on October 20, 2020 for a five second sample collecting mission. The spacecraft is scheduled to return the sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. This conversation will detail what scientists hope to learn from the mission and how the techniques developed to gather this sample lay the foundation for the future of spaceflight and exploration.

The event is hosted and co-produced by John “Das” Galloway, founder of the Kerbal Space Academy, and moderated by Summer Ash, an astrophysicist, rocket scientist and freelance writer.
This is the sixth in a monthly series of Virtual Astronomy Live programs.

Register for the program here:   .https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intrepid-museum-presents-virtual-astronomy-live-tickets-116469672927  

Watch live on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/IntrepidMuseum

Participants

Solveig Irvine, Mission Manager for the Planetary Missions Program Office at Marshall Space Flight Center. She is responsible for the OSIRIS-REx Mission and the Near Earth Object Surveillance Mission (NEOSM). In her position, she oversees each of her mission’s work to ensure that the science goals of each mission are fully met. Read the full bio here.

Dr. Christopher Snead , Christopher is one of the top experts in astromaterial sample preparation and analysis at NASA Johnson Space Center. He has been involved with several space missions and is actively supporting the Hayabusa2 and OSRIRIS-REx asteroid sample return missions.
Moderator

Summer Ash: Summer Ash has been both a rocket scientist and an astrophysicist. She is a freelance science writer and communicator whose work has been published in The Atlantic, NBC News, Smithsonian, Now.Space, Scientific American, Slate, and Nautilus.
Host

John “Das” Galloway: “Das” is a science outreach communicator who specializes in live, interactive video content. He is the creator of the Kerbal Space Academy, where he uses video games as a tool to start science and engineering conversations with viewers of all ages, and VECTORS Virtual Field Trips, which brings real-time interactive video to museums, events, and historical locations. “Das” also serves as a host and producer for NASASpaceflight.com.

Date: Thursday, 9/17/2020

Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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