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The theme for the 2013 IAA Planetary Defense Conference the conference is “Gathering for Impact!”

Call for Papers (pdf print version)

Papers are solicited in the following areas:
  
Planetary Defense – Recent Progress & Plans 

• Current national and international funded activities that support planetary defense
•  Program status and plans (e.g., NASA’s NEO program, ESA’s SSA program)
•  Current international agreements and coordination activities

NEO Discovery

•   Discovery statistics and projections (ground-based & space-based)
•  The status of next generation surveys (e.g., PanSTARRS and LSST)
•   Advancements in utilizing archival and historical data   

NEO Characterization

•   Lessons learned from recent discoveries and close approaches
•   Orbital refinements including non-gravitational effects and keyholes
•   Physical characterization that informs mitigation

Mitigation Techniques & Missions

• Space technologies for asteroid deflection/disruption (e.g., new concepts, kinetic impactor GNC, astrodynamics, etc.)
• Flight validation/demonstration missions for planetary defense technologies
• Robotic and human NEO exploration mission planning and design (e.g., OSIRIS-REx, Hayabusa 2, etc.)

Impact Effects that Inform Warning, Mitigation & Costs

• Information from the geological record and recent history
• Consequences of ocean and land impacts
• Economic costs of impacts

Consequence Management & Education

• Policy or legal analysis that will affect or inform future mitigation plans
• Educating the public and the media on NEO detection, impact effects, mitigation missions, impact warnings
• Strategies for developing disaster response plans across international borders
• Lessons learned from regional and international disasters (e.g.: Fukushima, Chernobyl, Hurricane Katrina) that provide insights for planetary defense

The conference will include an exercise where participants will simulate the decision-making process for developing deflection and civil defense responses to a hypothetical asteroid threat.

Participants will develop a set of actionable recommendations that will help to improve our ability to successfully defend Earth from possible impacts and prepare for unexpected NEO-related disasters.  Throughout the conference asteroid 2011AG5 will be considered as a reference scenario to focus the discussions (current information on 2011AG5 is posted at http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2011ag5.html.

Student Competition:

One or more of the best student paper(s) will be awarded a prize. The aim of the student competition is to help promote academic work and informed political debate by enhancing research and general understanding essential for sound decision making on NEO impact threats in years to come.

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