HAYABUSA2 TOUCHES DOWN ON RYUGU
Hayabusa2, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) mission, successfully touched down on the asteroid Ryugu. Congratulations to Makoto Yoshikawa, Hayabusa2 mission manager and Asteroid Day Regional Coordinator of Japan on this successful mission milestone. You can watch a video of the spacecraft touching down here.
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BENNU IN STEREO
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission just released a set of stereoscopic images of the asteroid Bennu created by Claudia Manzoni and Dr. Brian May, lead guitarist for the rock band Queen and a co-founder of Asteroid Day! The image provide a 3D view of a boulder jutting out from asteroid.
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SELECTED UPCOMING ASTEROID DAY EVENTS
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ASTEROID DAY HIGHLIGHTED EVENT
GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS
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Researchers at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) came together to organize an Asteroid Day Pub Quiz.
The event, hosted by DOT Groningen planetarium, was attended by over 50 people, non-astronomers and astronomers alike. The quiz had 4 categories: General Asteroid Knowledge, Asteroid History, Near-Earth Objects, and Asteroids Pop Culture. Each round of the quiz was followed with a small presentation so everyone could learn even more about asteroids. The researchers also brought a meteorite from the university museum to show to the audience.
You can download the full quiz for your own Asteroid Day event here!
(Thanks to Kateryna Frantseva for sharing this!)
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ASTEROID DAY
HIGHLIGHTED COMMUNITY MEMBER
VENELIN BOCHEV
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We are excited to welcome back Venelin Bochev as our 2019 Operations Manager for Asteroid Day working out of our headquarters in Luxembourg. Our beautiful headquarters office is generously provided to us Tomorrow Street, one of our global sponsors. In the months up to Asteroid Day, Ven works to make sure event organizers and regional coordinator around the world have what they need to run great events. He also manages the logistics for Asteroid Day events in Luxembourg, including ADLive!
He is a recent graduate in Political Science from the Free University of Brussels. Venelin has experience as a research consultant and trainee assistant at the United Nations Development Programme and European Parliament. Additionally, in his home region, the Balkans, Venelin has interned at a Serbian think-tank and is currently on the board of a Bulgarian youth think-tank. Knowledgeable in five languages, Bulgarian, English, French, Russian and Serbian, he intends to pursue a career as an international civil servant.
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ASTEROID DAY EXPERT PANEL (ADXP)
HIGHLIGHTED MEMBER
DR. CHRISTIAN KÖBERL
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Dr. Christian Köberl is the Director General of the Natural History Museum (NHM) in Vienna, Austria and professor of impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna.
As Director General of NHM, Dr. Köberl has been a great partner to Asteroid Day, hosting an Asteroid Day event every year since 2015. Dr. Köberl is working to increase the quality and visibility of research at NHM and provide a larger number and greater variation of special exhibitions covering modern natural sciences.
Dr. Köberl’s scientific research includes investigations into what happens to the earth when a meteor strikes. He leads multidisciplinary investigations into craters to learn more about impact structures and has also contributed to the discovery of previously unknown impact craters.
He has written and edited 15 books and authored over 450 peer-reviewed research publications. He is also a scientific advisor to the Barringer Crater Company and a visiting researcher at Meteor Crater, the best preserved asteroid impact site in the world.
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ASTEROID DAY HIGHLIGHTED SPONSOR
OHB
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We are delighted to welcome back OHB this year as a global sponsor for Asteroid Day.
OHB has been instrumental in ESA’s mission over the years. ESA’s proposed Hera mission, humankind’s first visit to a binary asteroid system, is set to undergo a detailed study led by OHB System AG in Germany.
Additionally, OHB’s CEO Marco Fuchs has been a key participant in Asteroid Day LIVE from Luxembourg.
Global sponsors such as OHB make is possible for Asteroid Day to support the event organizers around the world and to produce Asteroid Day LIVE from Luxembourg.
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VIDEO: Asteroid Day 2018 Panel with Marco Fuchs, OHB CEO
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
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