Near Earth Asteroid Space Missions and the Impact Hazard + Stargazing

The near-Earth asteroids are a population of objects on orbits that come near that of Earth.  They are accessible targets for spacecraft missions, but also pose a hazard: asteroids can and do impact Earth.  I will review programs to discover and characterize near-Earth asteroids, and current and future spacecraft missions to study asteroids and to address the impact hazard.

Speaker: Michael Busch, research scientist at SETI

Public Stargazing Night: Enjoy a free public stargazing session after the talk at the Montgomery Hill Observatory of Evergreen Valley College from 8:30 pm to 10 pm. View Jupiter with its moons, Saturn, the Mars, double star Albireo and many more objects. Free activities and glow in the dark sticks for the kids.

Free parking in the parking lot #6 for this event.