International Treaty for Moon Farside Protection
Time: 13:45 - 14:55
Room: HAC Hall C
Format: Workshop
This Special Session advocates the support by all scientists working in different areas of science to submit the UNO an international treaty for the Moon Farside protection:
- COSMOLOGY needs the radio quietness to pick up the feeble radiation of the hydrogen line down-shifted to MHz or kHz frequencies
- ASTROBIOLOGY studies pre-biological interstellar molecules by virtue of their roto-vibrational spectra
- SETI needs radio quietness to possibly detect Alien Civilizations “signatures”
- PLANETARY DEFENSE. The seeing from the Moon is wonderful. Thus, optical telescopes pointing at the (blocked) Sun would enable high-accuracy measurements of the orbital parameters of NEOs
Organizer
Facilitator
Speakers
Chuen Chern LOO
Head, Space Publication and Registration Division, Radiocommunication Bureau, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Switzerland
Jack O. BURNS
Professor, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado at Boulder
United States
PJ BLOUNT
Lecturer in Law, Executive Secretary, Cardiff University, International Institute of Space Law (IISL)
United Kingdom