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Dr. Makoto Yoshikawa, ADXP Member and Asteroid Day Regional Coordinator, was named in Nature’s 10 as one of the top 10 people who mattered in science in 2018.

ASTEROID DAY HIGHLIGHTED EVENT

VIENNA, AUSTRIA

The Natural History Museum of Vienna (NHM Vienna) presented a special Asteroid Day afternoon program with the highlight being the opening of a Meteor-Radar station in the museum's famous meteorite hall.

The event was organized by Dr. Julia Walter-Roszjar; Univ-Prof. Dr. Christian Köberl,  Regional Coordinator of Asteroid Day Austria and NHM Vienna CEO and Director General; and Dr. Ludovic Ferrière, NHM Vienna Curator.
The event started with a welcome from Dr. Köberl and a lecture to the public from Ing. Michael Zwingl, president of the Austrian Radio League (ÖVSV), about the detection of space debris using radar. 
The organizers then officially opened the Meteor-Radar Station. The station shows a signal from a receiver antenna on the roof of the museum, installed in collaboration with the ÖVSV. Museum visitors can now follow the influx of meteors visually and acoustically in real-time, a world premiere in a public museum.
NHM Vienna has a livestream of the station going at all times. It is usually full of static, but during meteor showers it comes alive with visuals and sound. You can learn more about the meteor station here.

ASTEROID DAY
HIGHLIGHTED COMMUNITY MEMBER

VICTOR BAR

Victor Bar’s goal is to prevent an asteroid impact.

During the day, Victor is a systems analyst and project manager for an IT company. But we know him as Asteroid Day Regional Coordinator for Israel, helping teach astronomy and asteroid science all over the country.

He is a NEOShield-2 agent and has organized multiple Asteroid Day events. This year he is coordinating several Asteroid Day lectures across Israel at Givaataim Observatory, Netanya Planetarium and the Yarqa Space Center.

You can follow him on Twitter @Victorz25.

ASTEROID DAY EXPERT PANEL (ADXP)
HIGHLIGHTED MEMBER

DR. DANTE LAURETTA

Dante Lauretta is a Professor of Planetary Science in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. He is the Principal Investigator for the NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission.

The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has the objective of touching down on the asteroid Bennu and bringing a piece of it back to Earth.
The mission recently hit a key milestone when on December 31st the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft entered into orbit around Bennu, officially making Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.

You can follow OSIRIS-REx on Twitter as 2019 will be full of challenging flight activities followed by its scheduled touchdown in 2020 and return to Earth in 2023.

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