ASE to release proposals for asteroid threat mitigation

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<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">For the past two years, the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) &mdash; the international organization of astronauts and cosmonauts from 33 countries &mdash; has been developing a program to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts.</font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">&nbsp;To assist it in developing this </font></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">program for the international community, the ASE&rsquo;s <em>Near-Earth Object</em> (NEO) <em>Committee</em> formed a distinguished international <em>Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation</em>. </font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">The Committee then organized a series of four workshops with the Panel to identify and address the international legal, political, scientific, and disaster management aspects of the challenge. </font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">The findings and recommendations from this work, <em>Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response,</em> will be detailed in a special press briefing to be held on September 25, 2008 at the Offices of the Google Foundation in San Francisco, California. </font></font></p><p><font size="2"><font face="Arial" color="#000000">The results of this two-year effort will be submitted to the <em>United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space</em> (COPUOS) in its 2009 sessions in Vienna, Austria for deliberation and action. The ASE NEO Committee and its Panel will complete its deliberations in a final workshop in San Francisco, September 22-25. At the close of that workshop, the ASE and its Panel of international experts will hold a press conference to announce the results of its program and its plans for bringing its recommendations to the attention of the world&rsquo;s space agencies and political leaders. The Secure World Foundation has partnered with the Association of Space Explorers NEO Committee and supports it in its dissemination of information and its briefings around the globe.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Members of the committee include:</font></p><p><font size="2">Rusty Schweickart, Chair<br />Sergei Avdeev (Russia) <br />Chris Hadfield (Canada) <br />Thomas Jones (USA) <br />Edward Lu (USA) <br />Dumitru Prunariu (Romania)<br />Viktor Savinykh (Russia)<br />Franklin Chang-Diaz (USA/Costa Rica) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">I would be interested in hearing what was covered as well as discussing this with other community members.</font></p><font face="Arial" size="2"><p><font face="Arial" size="2">ASE Link</font></p></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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