Amy Mainzeris an astrophysicist at the Jet Propulsion research laboratory who build instruments for place telescopes that allow us to read Earth ’s approximate neighbors , include asteroids , comet , and stars . She ’s here today to serve your questions about all the object whizzing past Earth — and which one we should be keep our eyes on .
Mainzer built the hunky-dory counselling sensor for NASA ’s Spitzer Space Telescope and she ’s presently leading NASA ’s NEOWISE mission to obtain and characterize asteroid , as well as a proposal to build a more advanced asteroid survey missionary work , the Near - Earth Object Camera ( NEOCam ) that would incur a turgid fraction of potentially risky objective using advanced infrared demodulator . In her trim time , she tell us , she enjoys roller disco music and Star Trek , preferably together , and spill about science with anyone who will listen .
She ’ll be joining us from 12:30 – 1:30 ( PST ) . So start up asking her head now about monitoring asteroids , the problems of space trash , and the tech that makes knowing about all this possible .
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