Seminar: Near-Earth Objects

The lunch break on Thursday featured a seminar for science writers entitled “Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Ask About Near-Earth Objects: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, What We Need to Know.” Linda Billings, director of science communication at the National Institute of Aerospace, helped organize the seminar, which included presentations by Lindley Johnson (NASA Headquarters), Tim Spahr (IAU Minor Planet Center), Eileen Ryan (New Mexico Tech/Magdalena Ridge Observatory), and Amy Mainzer (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).