Intrepid Museum
Virtual Astronomy Live
Exploring Asteroids in our Solar System
PAST EVENT
Thursday, Sep 17th
5:00PM to 7:00PM EDT
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum will present a Virtual Astronomy Live program on Thursday, September 17 from 5:30pm-7:00pm ET. This free event will explore Asteroids in our Solar System.
Asteroids may be small but studying them could help scientists unravel some big mysteries. The space rocks are fossils from the birth of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago — celestial fragments that never managed to grow into planets.
Currently, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx’s mission is scheduled to land on the asteroid Bennu on October 20, 2020 for a five second sample collecting mission. This conversation will detail what scientists hope to learn from the mission and how the techniques developed to gather this sample lay the foundation for the future of spaceflight and exploration.A pre-show will take place at 5:00pm EST with Frantz Lucien, Manager of Interactive Experience & Family Engagement at the Intrepid Museum.
The event is suitable for all ages. For more information and to register, visit www.intrepidmuseum.org.
The event is hosted and co-produced by John “Das” Galloway, founder of the Kerbal Space Academy, and moderated by Summer Ash, an astrophysicist, rocket scientist and freelance writer. This is the sixth in a monthly series of Virtual Astronomy Live programs. The next iteration on October 15 will feature Food in Space.
This program is supported through a NASA Cooperative Agreement awarded to the New York Space Grant Consortium.
Participants
Solveig Irvine
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
Mission Manager for the Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. She is responsible for the OSIRIS-REx Mission and the Near Earth Object Surveillance Mission (NEOSM). In her position, she oversees each of her mission’s work to ensure that the science goals of each mission are fully met.
Dr. Christopher Snead
NASA Johnson Space Center
Christopher is one of the top experts in astromaterial sample preparation and analysis at NASA Johnson Space Center. He has been involved with several space missions and is actively supporting the Hayabusa2 and OSRIRIS-REX asteroid sample return missions.
Summer Ash
Moderator
Summer Ash has been both a rocket scientist and an astrophysicist. She is a freelance science writer and communicator whose work has been published in The Atlantic, NBC News, Smithsonian, Now.Space, Scientific American, Slate, and Nautilus.
John “Das”Galloway
Host and Producer
“Das” is a science outreach communicator who specializes in live, interactive video content. He is the creator of the Kerbal Space Academy, where he uses video games as a tool to start science and engineering conversations with viewers of all ages, and VECTORS Virtual Field Trips, which brings real-time interactive video to museums, events, and historical locations. “Das” also serves as a host and producer for NASASpaceflight.com.
Produced by Intrepid Museum in partnership with Kerbal Space Academy and Egress Productions, LLC.