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DAY 1 Monday 29 April 2019

0800 REGISTRATION

0850 OPENING REMARKS: Conference Organizers
 

0900 WELCOME: Jason Kalirai, Civil Space Mission Area Executive, JHUAPL

0910 WELCOME: Welcome – GSFC

0920 KEYNOTE: The Honorable James Bridenstine, NASA
Administrator

0940 BREAK

SESSION 1: KEY DEVELOPMENTS

SESSION ORGANIZERS: Detlef Koschny, Lindley Johnson

1000 IAA-PDC-19-01-01 The United Nations And Planetary
Defense: Key Developments Following UNISPACE+50 In 2018 Kofler, OOSA

1012 IAA-PDC-19-01-02 Planetary Defence India: Capability, future requirements, and Deflection Strategy for 2019
PDC Singh, ISRO

1024 IAA-PDC-19-01-03 Planetary defence activities at the
European Space Agency Jehn, ESA

1036 IAA-PDC-19-01-04 Planetary Defense Program of the
United States Johnson, NASA

1048 IAA-PDC-19-01-05 Israel Space Agency & Planetary
Defense Harel Ben-Ami, ISA

SESSION 2: ADVANCEMENTS IN NEO DISCOVERY & CHARACTERIZATION

SESSION ORGANIZERS: Alan Harris (US), James (Gerbs) Bauer, Giovanni Valsecchi, Amy Mainzer

1100 IAA-PDC-19-02-01 Recent Evolutions In ESA’s NEO
Coordination Centre System Cano, Italy

1112 IAA-PDC-19-02-02 NEODyS services migration to ESA’s NEO
Coordination Centre: the effort and the improvements Bernardi, Italy

1124 IAA-PDC-19-02-03 Building the Reference Small Body
Population Model Spahr, USA

1136 IAA-PDC-19-02-04 NEMO – a global near real-time
fireball monitoring system Drolshagen & Ott, Germany

1148 IAA-PDC-19-02-05 Observational Activities At ESA’s NEO
Coordination Centre Micheli, Italy

1200 IAA-PDC-19-02-06 Impact Monitoring System of the
Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vavilov, Russia

1212 IAA-PDC-19-02-07 Update Of NEA Population And Current
Survey Status Harris, USA

1224 IAA-PDC-19-02-08 Catalina Sky Survey’s Increased
Discovery and Follow-up Capability Christensen, USA

1236 LUNCH

SESSION 2 (CONTINUED)

1400 IAA-PDC-19-02-10 Detection Of Small Impacting Asteroids
With The ATLAS Telescope System Denneau, USA

1412 IAA-PDC-19-02-11 The PAN-STARRS Data Archive — An
Invaluable Resource Of Faint Near Earth Object Detections Wainscoat, USA

1424 IAA-PDC-19-02-12 The Minor Planet Center Data
Processing System Holman, USA

1436 IAA-PDC-19-02-13 The Digest2 – NEO classification code
Veres, USA

1448 IAA-PDC-19-02-14 Is There A Prefered Date For A
Possible Impact? Tancredi Uruguay

1452 IAA-PDC-19-02-15 The Contribution Of Intermediate- And
Long-Period Asteroids To The Overall Large-Body Impact Hazard Steel, New Zealand

1504 IAA-PDC-19-02-16 The Earth-Impact Risk From Manx Comets
Ramanjooloo, USA

1516 BREAK

1546 IAA-PDC-19-02-17 The Impact of Small Near-Earth
Asteroid 2018 LA Farnocchia, USA

1558 IAA-PDC-19-02-18 Identifying Short-Term Impactors With
LSST Naidu, USA

1610 IAA-PDC-19-02-19 Recent Results In Characterization Of
Near-Earth Objects By The Neowise Mission Masiero, USA

1622 IAA-PDC-19-02-20 Rapid Response Characterization of
Potential NEO Impactors Moskovitz, USA

1634 IAA-PDC-19-02-21 Arecibo Radar Observations Of
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Taylor, USA

1646 IAA-PDC-19-02-22 The LCO Follow-up Network for NEOs
Lister, USA

1658 INJECT: PRESS RELEASE#1

1730 ADJOURN DAY 1

DAY 2 Tuesday 30 April 2019

0820 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Session 2: Continued

0830 IAA-PDC-19-02-23 The boulders on asteroid Ryugu: clues
to the formation history of the top-shaped morphology Cheng, China

0842 IAA-PDC-19-02-24 Faint NEO Observations Using The
UH-2.2m Telescope Fohring, USA

0854 IAA-PDC-19-02-25 Discovering and Studying Near Earth
Objects with The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Jones, USA

0906 IAA-PDC-19-02-26 The Near-Earth Object Camera: Overview
Mainzer, USA

0918 IAA-PDC-19-02-27 NEOCam Survey Cadence and Simulation
Grav, USA

0930 IAA-PDC-19-02-28 MODE: a new Moving Object Discovery
Engine Cutri, USA

0942 IAA-PDC-19-02-29 Near-Earth Asteroids Monitoring for
Hazard Assessments Birlan, France

0954 IAA-PDC-19-02-30 Find_Orb: Orbit Determination and
Analysis Software Gray, USA

1006 BREAK

SESSION 3: APOPHIS SESSION ORGANIZERS: Marina Brozovic, Davide Farnocchia

1036 IAA-PDC-19-03-01 Apophis 2029: Planetary Defense
Opportunity Of The Decade Binzel, USA

1048 IAA-PDC-19-03-02 Yarkovsky Acceleration Of (99942)
Apophis Tholen, USA

1100 IAA-PDC-19-03-03 Abrupt Alteration of Apophis’ Spin
State Redux Scheeres, USA

1112 IAA-PDC-19-03-04 Using a Discrete Element Method to
Investigate Seismic Response and Spin Change of 99942 Apophis During its 2029 Tidal Encounter with Earth DeMartini,
USA

1124 IAA-PDC-19-03-05 Trajectory Concepts For An Apophis
Rendezvous Mission Siddique, USA

1136 IAA-PDC-19-03-06 Asteroid Probe Experiment: Mission To
Apophis Plescia, USA

1148 IAA-PDC-19-03-07 AI3: The Asteroid In-Situ
Investigation – 3 Ways to measure the interior of asteroid Apophis Deller, Germany

1200 IAA-PDC-19-03-08 A Cubesat Mission to Asteroid Apophis
Based on M-ARGO? Koschny, Germany

1212 IAA-PDC-19-03-09 Science and Planetary Defense
Priorities for Spacecraft Encounter Mission Concepts at (99942) Apophis During its 2029 Close Encounter with Earth
Bell, USA

1224 IAA-PDC-19-03-10 Six Very Close Potentially Hazardous
Asteroid Flybys in the Late 2020s Benner, USAM

1236 LUNCH & SPEAKER – Mr Dennis Andrucyk, Deputy Associate Administrator, NASA

1400 IAA-PDC-19-03-11 Lessons From The 2012 TC4 Campaign:
First Global Planetary Defense Exercise Reddy, USA

1415 INJECT #2

1500 EXERCISE GROUPS DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS

1600 BREAK

1630 GROUPS FEEDBACK RECOMMENDATIONS

1700 DECISION MAKER RESPONSES

1730 ADJOURN DAY 2

DAY 3 Wednesday 1 May 2019

0820 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

SESSION 4: DEFLECTION & DISRUPTION MODELS & TESTS

SESSION ORGANIZERS: Patrick Michel, Tom Jones, Andy Cheng

0830 IAA-PDC-19-04-01 Simulation Of The Dart Impact: Effects
Of Impact Conditions And Target Properties Bruck-Syal, USA

0848 IAA-PDC-19-04-02 Progress At Los Alamos National
Laboratory (LANL) On The Inter-Agency Agreement On Planetary Defense Plesko, USA

0906 IAA-PDC-19-04-03 Modeling the DART kinetic impactor and
crater formation using realistic spacecraft shapes Owen, USA

0924 IAA-PDC-19-04-04 Exploring Effects of Spacecraft
Geometry and Target Structure on the DART Impact Stickle, USA

0942 IAA-PDC-19-04-05 Understanding the Effect of Rubble
Pile Structures on Asteroid Deflection Graninger, USA

1000 IAA-PDC-19-04-06 Applications Of Dart Impact Simulation
Results Rainey, USA

1018 IAA-PDC-19-04-08 BREAK (30 minutes)

1048 IAA-PDC-19-04-09 Numerical modelling of the DART impact
and the importance of the Hera mission Raducan, UK

1106 IAA-PDC-19-04-10 Impact simulations of the Double
Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – Results from the HERA Impact Simulation Group Luther, Germany

1124 IAA-PDC-19-04-11 Deflection Of A Small Object Using A
Kinetic Impactor Remington, USA

1142 IAA-PDC-19-04-12 Size Scaling of Momentum Enhancement
during Hypervelocity Impact of Porous and Consolidated Rock Walker, USA

1200 LUNCH

SESSION 5: MITIGATION CAMPAIGN DESIGN

SESSION ORGANIZERS: Nahum Melamed, Ian Carnelli, Marco Tantardini

1330 IAA-PDC-19-05-01 Double Asteroid Redirection Test Reed,
USA

1342 IAA-PDC-19-05-02 Observations of Didymos in Support of
AIDA/DART Thomas, USA

1354 IAA-PDC-19-05-03 Proximity Observations by the Didymos
Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for OpNav (DRACO) Ernst, USA

1406 IAA-PDC-19-05-04 Double Asteroid Redirection Test:
Technology and Engineering Challenges Adams, USA

1418 IAA-PDC-19-05-05 Renderer and Camera Emulator (RCE) for
NASA’S Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mehta, USA

1430 IAA-PDC-19-05-06 HERA: European component of the
Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission to the binary asteroid Didymos Michel, France

1442 IAA-PDC-19-05-07 Hera planned mission and payload
operations at close proximity of the Didymos binary asteroid system after DART impact Karatekin, Belgium

1454 IAA-PDC-19-05-08 Autonomous GNC and data fusion for the
HERA mission Graziano, Spain

1506 IAA-PDC-19-05-09 Asteroid Prospection Explorer (APEX)
CubeSat for Hera mission Kohout, Finland

1518 IAA-PDC-19-05-10 A Method for Defending Against
Long-Period Comets Eismont, Russia

1530 BREAK

1600 IAA-PDC-19-05-11 Spacecraft Mission Design For The
Mitigation Of The 2019 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Threat Barbee, USA

1612 IAA-PDC-19-05-12 Characterization and deflection
missions of the fictitious asteroid 2019 PDC Roa, USA

1624 IAA-PDC-19-05-13 See a New World in 17 Hours – First
Results, Design and Mission of the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (Mascot) on Ryugu Ho, Germany

1636 IAA-PDC-19-05-14 More Than One For All – The Synergy of
Modularity and Re-Use in Nanolander Development in the Continuation of the Design of Mobile Asteroid Surface Scouts
(MASCOT) Lange, Germany

1648 IAA-PDC-19-05-15 NEOCAM Instrument Design and
Performance Model Trangsrud, USA

1700 IAA-PDC-19-05-16 System of Observation of Daytime
Asteroids: trajectory and orbit design Kovalenko, Russia

1712 IAA-PDC-19-05-17 BIRDY – Potential use of SmallSat for
NEO reconnaissance and exploration Hestroffer, France

1724 INJECT: PRESS RELEASE #3

1800 ADJOURN DAY 3

DAY 4 Thursday 2 May 2019

0800 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

SESSION 6: IMPACT CONSEQUENCES & DISASTER RESPONSE

SESSION ORGANIZERS: David Morrison, Mark Boslough. L.A. Lewis

0830 IAA-PDC-19-06-01 Atmospheric Injections from Impacts of
Kilometer Scale Asteroids Robertson, USA

0842 IAA-PDC-19-06-02 Strength and Breakup Factors in Impact
Scenario Risk Assessment Wheeler, USA

0854 IAA-PDC-19-06-03 Next Steps in Impact Risk Assessment
Mathias, USA

0906 IAA-PDC-19-06-04 Asteroid to Airburst; Comparing
Semi-analytical Airburst Models to Hydrocodes McMullan, UK

0918 IAA-PDC-19-06-05 Modeling Thermal Radiation from
Asteroid Airbursts
Stern, USA

0930 IAA-PDC-19-06-06 “Effective Height Of Burst” Revisted
Boslough, USA

0942 IAA-PDC-19-06-07 Airburst Detection Capability of the
Infrasound Segment of the CTBTO International Monitoring System Brown, Canada

0954 IAA-PDC-19-06-08 Recent Glass Strewn Field From
Fireball Over Chile Schultz, USA

1006 IAA-PDC-19-06-09 GPU Parallel Algorithm for Hypersonic
Flow Around Asteroid Bai, China

1018 IAA-PDC-19-06-10 The Impact Effects Knowledgebase: Fast
Prediction of the Consequences of NEO Collisions with Earth Luther, Germany

1030 BREAK

1100 IAA-PDC-19-06-11 Simulation of PDC 2019 Asteroid Land
and Ocean Impacts: Consequences on US Major Cities for Disaster Response and Management Ezzedine, USA

1112 IAA-PDC-19-06-12 Hazard Estimate Of 2019 PDC Impact
Scenario Dang, China

1124 IAA-PDC-19-06-13 Coordinated Disaster Preparedness And
Response For Near-Earth Object (NEO) Threats – Experiences From The “United Nations Platform For Space-Based
Information For Disaster Management And Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) Ravan, OOSA/UNSPIDER

1136 IAA-PDC-19-06-14 Intelligent Surge: Improving
Healthcare Preparedness In Times Of Disaster Loschen, USA

1148 IAA-PDC-19-06-15 Role of Space Technology for Disaster
Management: Agenda and Action Plan Jagannatha, India

1200 LUNCH & SPEAKERS • Dr Aaron Miles, National Security Division, Office of Science and Technology Policy,
Executive Office of the President • Mr Damon Penn, Assistant Administrator, Emergency Response Directorate, Federal
Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security

SESSION 7: ISSUES AFFECTING DECISION TO ACT

SESSION ORGANIZERS: Mariella Graziano, Victoria Friedensen

1330 IAA-PDC-19-07-01 Legality of Planetary Defense Missions
and Considerations for International Decision Bodies Marboe, Austria

1345 IAA-PDC-19-07-02 Sustainability of International
Planetary Defense Decision-Making: What Can Go Wrong Even if We Deflect an Asteroid? Bohacek, Czech Republic

1400 IAA-PDC-19-07-03 International Liability and
Responsibility Issues in Planetary Defense Soucek, The Netherlands

1415 IAA-PDC-19-07-04 Responsibility System on the Defense of Near-Earth Objects Wang, China

1430 IAA-PDC-19-07-05 The U.S. National Near-Earth Object
Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan: Summary of Progress to Date Friedensen, USA

1445 IAA-PDC-19-07-07 Accounting For Violent Conflict Risk
In Planetary Defense Decisions Baum, USA

1500 BREAK SESSION 8: COMMUNICATIONS TO THE PUBLIC SESSION ORGANIZERS: Alex Karl, Jan Osburg

1530 IAA-PDC-19-08-01 A Suggested Communications Standard
For Asteroid Impact Alerts Landis, USA

1545 IAA-PDC-19-08-02 An analysis of IAWN communication
audiences and recommendations to increase publicity among the NEO community and the general public Karl &
Wolfson, Belgium

1600 IAA-PDC-19-08-03 Planetary Defense In The Classroom, A
Social Science Perspective Haddaji, USA

1615 IAA-PDC-19-08-04 Planetary Defense Mitigation Gateway:
One-Stop Gateway for Pertinent PD- Related Contents Shams, USA

1630 Poster Presentations

1645 INJECT #4

1730 ADJOURN DAY 4

DAY 5 Friday 3 May 2019

0850 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

0900 PANEL SESSION: What journalists want to know about
Planetary Defense. MODERATOR: Linda Billings PANELISTS: Dan Vergano, Buzzfeed Melissa Nord, CBS Channel 9 Sarah
Kaplan, Washington Post

1000 BREAK

1015 UPDATE #5

1045 GROUP DISCUSSION & RECOMMENDATIONS

1145 DECISION MAKER DISCUSSION & DECISIONS

1230 LUNCH

1400 DISCUSSION: LESSONS LEARNED AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM
PDC 2019

1500 CONFERENCE ENDS