D. 25 June 2019 KL. 17.00 invites the company to spread the naturalist to the annual ' Asteroid Day ' Day 2019 in the geological Museum in Copenhagen.
The asteroid Day is a special UN anniversary: a day full of dissemination & learning about our place in the solar system, asteroids, potential impacts and what we can learn about (and from) these huge objects from space.
We know today to barely half a million asteroids in our solar system. We have flown past a few of them and taken samples of two of them, soon three. They are available in all sizes up to the largest of well 1000 km in diameter. Some consist of loosely composite material, while others are made of metal – but what do we really know about them? How are they resurrected, how do they look – and should we be nervous about whether they hit the earth? And what can we do to defend ourselves against them? What are the Un plans?
For asteroid Day 2019 you can meet Line Drube and Henning Haack who hold two lectures of 45 my duration with the possibility of questions. During the break there will be refreshments. Line Drube will tell about asteroids, the danger to them, how they are observed and what we can do when an asteroid is heading towards the earth. Henning Haack will share how the asteroid has become and what we can learn from studying them. He will also show some bits of them and tell of what happens when they hit the ground as it happened to (geologically) recently in the northernmost Greenland.
Line Drube
Line Drube is Ph.D. In astrophysics. From 2012-18, she was a researcher and project coordinator of the EU Commission's NEOShield and NEOShield-2 (www.neoshield.net) projects at the German Space Centre. The projects were to find out how to avert a possible asteroid on the road to the Earth, among others. By testing methods to change the course of asteroids. She was also a member of the Un Space Mission Planning Advisory Group and coordinator of its working groups on the legal issues of asteroid defence missions. Since December 2018, she has been project coordinator at DTU Space on Esa'S Swarm mission.
Henning Haack is a geofycist and has researched Meteoritts for 25 years. He has for many years also been responsible for the meteorite collection at the state natural History Museum of the University of Copenhagen. Many will know him because he appears in the media when there is news about Meteoritts. He has participated in expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland to search for Meteoritts. In addition, he is the author of a wide range of scientific and popular scientific articles on Meteoritts
Asteroid Day is a globally lecturist supported by the United Nations aiming to inform about asteroids and inspire new generations of scientists, engineers and not least politicians. https://asteroidday.org/