Seattle Museum of Flight to Host Astronauts on Earth Day for Special Program on Protecting Earth from Dangerous Asteroids

NOTICE OF PRESS CONFERENCE

WHEN: Tuesday, April 22, beginning at 11:30 a.m. (PDT)

WHERE: Museum of Flight (9404 East Marginal Way So, Seattle, WA 98108)

LIVESTREAM URL: www.B612foundation.org

SPEAKERS:

  • US Shuttle, ISS and Soyuz Astronaut Dr. Ed Lu, Co-founder & CEO, B612 Foundation
  • US Shuttle Astronaut Tom Jones, President, Association of Space Explorers
  • Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders
  • Doug King, CEO, Museum of Flight

WHAT: Ed Lu, CEO B612 Foundation will unveil a new video showing the surprising number of asteroid impacts on Earth during the last decade, and the even more surprising fact that we can prevent future asteroid impacts. The visualization will show data from the nuclear weapons test-warning network, supplied by Peter Brown, Western University of Canada, which has detected 26 multi-kiloton explosions since 2001 - all of which are due to asteroid impacts. “This data shows that asteroid impacts are NOT rare, but actually 3-10 times more common than we previously thought,” stated Dr. Lu.

The B612 Foundation is partnered with Ball Aerospace to build and operate the Sentinel Infrared Space Telescope, which, when launched in 2018, will be the principal means by which nearly all asteroid discoveries will be made. Sentinel will be able to find 100 times more asteroids than all other telescopes combined (including Earth-orbiting telescopes).

Tom Jones, four-time US Shuttle Astronaut and President of the Association of Space Explorers will explain the recent UN resolution calling for international cooperation for detection of dangerous asteroids. Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders will unveil a new mural of the EARTHRISE photo showing the Earth rising above the crater-strewn surface of the Moon, which will remain on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight.

Astronauts Ed Lu, Tom Jones and Bill Anders will also be available for 1-1 interviews and additional photos immediately before and following the Press Conference.

The video showing the findings of asteroid impacts will be posted April 22 at: www.b612foundation.org

Contacts:

B612 Foundation
Diane Murphy, 202.361.9681
diane@B612Foundation.org
or
Seattle Museum of Flight
Ted Huetter, 206.455.5360
THuetter@museumofflight.org

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