Asteroid Day's video: 2018 Asteroid Technical Briefing Part 2

Each year around Asteroid Day, the Asteroid Foundation produces an in-depth technical presentation about asteroids. Experts from around the world provide insight into asteroid space missions, computational tools to find, track and deflect asteroids and the state of international and national asteroid initiatives. The presentations are followed by questions and answers led by a distinguished panel of astronauts. The sponsors, research organizations, universities and the general public are invited to attend this event. 00:00 Speaker: Professor Alan Fitzsimmons - How discovery and observations of comets and asteroids are done today to feed into dynamical maps and catalogs, and what we are learning about asteroids including case studies of new discoveries. 18:43 Q & A Part 1 33:20 Speaker: Dr. Dorin Prunariu - How the United Nations works to support asteroid related political and scientific efforts to increase our understanding and global strategies to respond to the opportunities and threats related to asteroids. 46:05 Q & A Part 2 01:14:01 Exit Speech - Danica Remy Asteroid Day is a global movement to protect Earth from asteroid impacts. Join us today! Host a local event and sign the 100X Declaration, here: http://asteroidday.org