Conveners
2025 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Exercise: Panel 1a: Notification of asteroid impact threat and early preparedness
- Terik Daly (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Davide Farnocchia (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- Kelly Fast
- Lorien Wheeler (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Detlef Koschny (Technical University of Munich)
2025 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Exercise: Panel 1b: Acting on results from an information-gathering space mission
- Nancy Chabot (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)
- Terik Daly (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Detlef Koschny (Technical University of Munich)
- Kelly Fast
- Lorien Wheeler (NASA Ames Research Center)
Description
2025 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Exercise (Panelists: Humbulani Mudau, CEO, SANSA; David Ngindu, Director-General, Centre National de Télédétection, DRC; Anderson Banda, Director of SADC Humanitarian and Emergency Operations Centre (SHOC), Nascala, Mozambique; Lindley Johnson, Planetary Defense Officer, NASA PDCO; Marco Castronuovo, Head of the Observation and Surveillance Office, ASI; Johan Minnie, (Head of Centre): Disaster Management at the City of Cape Town; Clement Kalonga, United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC)/INSARAG focal point for OCHA ROSEA; Lorant Czaran, Head of UN-SPIDER/UNOOSA; Joerg Szarzynski, Head of GLOMOS Programme, and official active member of UNDAC team / OCHA environment; Romana Kofler, Progamme Officer, UNOOSA/SMPAG secretariat)
Panel 1a: Notification of asteroid ?impact threat and early preparedness