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Project Title: Review of Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies, Survey/Detection Panel

PIN: SSBX-L-08-05-B         

Major Unit:
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Sub Unit:
Aeronautics & Space Engineering Board
Space Studies Board

RSO:
Day, Dwayne

Subject/Focus Area:



Review of Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies, Survey/Detection Panel
January 28, 2009 - January 30, 2009
Keck Center
500 5th Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20001



If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:


Contact Name: Dwayne A Day
Email: dday@nas.edu
Phone: 202-334-3011
Fax:


Agenda:

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

CLOSED SESSION

7:30 am Room Opens
Breakfast will be served in the committee room

8:30 am Committee Convenes Faith Vilas, Chair

OPEN SESSION
12:00 am Break

12:15 pm Committee Discussion Continues
(Lunch will be served in the meeting room, committee discussion will continue)

1:00 pm The Minor Planets Center’s Role in NEO Tracking Tim Spahr, Minor Planets Center

2:00 pm Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm NASA’s NEO Observation Program Lindley Johnson, NASA SMD

4:30 pm The NASA NEO Survey Alan Harris, Space Science Institute

5:30 pm Committee and invited guests will convene at an alternate location for
the Working Committee Dinner

6:00 pm Committee Discussion

8:00 pm Adjourn for the day



Thursday, January 29, 2009

CLOSED SESSION

7:30 am Room Opens

8:30 am Committee convenes Faith Vilas, Chair


OPEN SESSION

9:00 am Using terrestrial radar, an operator’s perspective Lance Benner, JPL

10:00 am Arecibo’s role in asteroid characterization Don Campbell, Cornell

11:00 am Break

11:15 am Physical characteristics of asteroids Dan Britt, University of Central Florida

12:15 pm Committee Discussion
(Lunch will be served in the meeting room, committee discussion will continue)

1:00 pm Pan-STARRS Robert Jedicke, University of Hawaii

2:00 pm Canadian NEOSSat mission Alan Hildebrand, University of Calgary
David Kendall, Canadian Space Agency

3:00 pm Break

3:15 pm Various space-based IR NEO observation platforms Amy Mainzer, JPL

4:15 pm Space-based NEO discovery Mike Egan, NGA

5:15 pm Adjourn

Friday, January 30, 2009

CLOSED SESSION

7:30 am Room Opens

8:45 am Reconvene Faith Vilas, Chair
(Coffee and Danish will be provided)

12:30 pm Adjourn


Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
Faith Vilas

Paul Abell

Bob Arentz

Lance Benner

Bill Bottke

Andrew Cheng

Robert Culp

Yan Fernandez

Lynne Jones

Stephen Mackwell

Amy Mainzer

Gordon Pettengill

John Rice


The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
Overall study scope. Organization of study. Bias and conflict discussion. Speakers for second meeting. Date of second meeting. Overall approach to writing the draft report.

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
Statement of task.

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary: January 29, 2009



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