Asteroid Day press conference participants

• Moderator: Stuart Clark, astronomy author and journalist
• Brian May, astrophysicist, co-founder of Asteroid Day
• Grig Richters, filmmaker and co-founder of Asteroid Day
• Franco Ongaro, Director of Technical and Quality Management, ESA
• Ian Carnelli, Asteroid Impact Mission manager, ESA
• Detlef Koschny, Space Situational Awareness Near-Earth Object co-manager, ESA
• Richard Moissl, Rosetta instrument liaison officer, ESA
• Stephan Ulamec, Philae lander manager, German Aerospace Center DLR
• Patrick Michel, planetary scientist, senior researcher at CNRS French National Centre for Scientific Research
• Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, UK
• Mark Boslough, physicist and planetary defence expert, Sandia National Laboratories, adjunct professor, University of New Mexico, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
• Ed Lu, Shuttle astronaut, asteroid expert and Founder/CEO of B612 Foundation
• Dumitru Dorin Prunariu; Romanian astronaut, founding member Association of Space Explorers and liaison to the UN Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Space
• Tom Jones, Shuttle astronaut, planetary scientist, Chair,  Association of Space Explorers Committee on Near-Earth Objects
• Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
• Rakesh Sharma, Indian cosmonaut

Information for media

Media are also invited to tour the ESTEC facility, beginning at 13:00 CET.

RSVP for ESTEC or remote attendance: PR@asteroidday.org

Questions: pr@asteroidday.org or via Twitter (#AsteroidDay)

Journalists requesting one-to-one interviews: contact Diane Murphy, pr@asteroidday.org

Press conference will be webcast: RSVP for access instructions.

Further information

http://asteroidday.org/newsroom

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Media Contacts

Diane Murphy: US: +1 310 658 8756, PR@asteroidday.org

ESA:  Ninja Menning:  +31 6 21 43 75 58, estecpr@esa.int