Humans vs. Asteroids – Mitigating Risk and Expanding Opportunities is presented by Marina Brozovic, radar scientist and an orbital dynamicist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Brozović observed hundreds of near-Earth asteroids with the Goldstone and Arecibo planetary radars, and she was involved in discoveries of a dozen binary and three triple asteroid systems, fourteen moons of Jupiter, and several Trans-Neptunian Objects.
Free and open to students, faculty, staff and the Notre Dame community. No registration is required. Visitors must wear masks in compliance with the University’s COVID-19 guidelines.
This is the sixth of seven lectures in the Ten Years Hence speaker series that will explore Life Beyond Earth. For a listing of all lectures, visit the Ten Years Hence website.
Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the O’Brien-Smith Leadership Program.