Update from United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA): Draft Agenda Items on NEOs

From the agenda where the UN body will discuss various topics including NEOs...

[Agenda Item] 12. Near-Earth objects

In paragraph 10 (b) of its resolution 62/217, the General Assembly endorsed the recommendation of the Committee that the Subcommittee, at its forty-fifth session, should consider this item in accordance with the new multi-year workplan for the period 2008-2010, adopted by the Subcommittee at its forty-fourth session (A/AC.105/890, annex III, para. 7).

In accordance with the workplan, the Subcommittee, at its forty-fifth session, will take the following actions:

(a) Continue intersessional work;
(b) Consider the reports submitted in response to the annual request for information on near-Earth object activities;
(c) Update the interim report of the Action Team on Near-Earth Objects.

The reports mentioned in subparagraph (b) above are contained in document A/AC.105/896. The interim report of the Action Team on Near-Earth Objects for the period 2007-2008, mentioned in subparagraph (c) above, is contained in document A/AC.105/C.1/L.295.

In paragraph 15 of its resolution 62/217, the General Assembly agreed that the Subcommittee, at its forty-fifth session, should reconvene its Working Group on Near-Earth Objects, in accordance with the workplan under this item.

Link: Provisional Agenda for the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2008