Ed & Rusty will respectively give an overview of the challenge of protecting the Earth from asteroid impacts from the perspectives of both the technical capability to deflect them (and provide other mitigation options) and the international political challenge in defining and agreeing to take such actions.
The NEO Challenge: Technology and Politics
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Date
Wednesday, May 07 2008 - 12:00 pm, PDT
Speaker
Rusty Schweickart and Ed Lu
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