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The Planetary Society's public event at the Planetary Defense Conference 2023 in Vienna, Austria

The Planetary Society's public event at the Planetary Defense Conference 2023 in Vienna, Austria
The Planetary Society's public event at the Planetary Defense Conference 2023 in Vienna, Austria A photo from the public event hosted by the Planetary Society at the 2023 Planetary Defense Conference in Vienna, Austria on April 5, 2023. The event included a screening of IMAX Asteroid Hunters followed by a Q&A session with planetary defense experts and moderate by the Society's Mat Kaplan.

Pictured from left to right:

Mat Kaplan, Senior Communications Adviser of The Planetary Society

Nahum Melamed, Aerospace Corporation project manager and co-chair of the Planetary Defense Conference

Marina Brozovic, physicist and orbital dynamicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mark Boslough, physicist and airburst specialist, University of New Mexico

Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office

Kelly Fast, NASA program scientist and program manager for the Near-Earth Object Observations Program, Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Bill Ailor, Aerospace Corporation technical fellow and Planetary Defense Conference founder

Ian Carnelli, Project Manager of ESA’s Hera mission

Philip Groves