[meteorite-list] Major Extrasolar Planets Discovery

[Paul H]

Extrasolar Planets Discovered

Kathleen Burton                 Aug. 30,  2004        
                                           
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Phone: 650/604-1731 or 604-9000
E-mail: Kathleen.M.Burton at nasa.gov

NOTE TO EDITORS AND NEWS DIRECTORS: News 
media representatives are invited to view 
live televised coverage and commentary of 
a major extra-solar discovery announcement 
on Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 10 a.m. PDT. The 
coverage will be broadcast live from NASA 
Headquarters in Washington on NASA 
Television and can be viewed in the lobby 
of the N-201 auditorium at NASA Ames 
Research Center, located in California's 
Silicon Valley. Following the briefing, 
Dr. Jack Lissauer, a NASA Ames planetary 
scientist, will be available for interviews. 
NASA Television can be seen on AMC- 6, 
Transponder 9 located at 72 degrees west 
longitude with 3880.0 MHz. vertical 
polarization and audio at 6.8 MHz.

RELEASE:  04-79AR
NASA TO ANNOUNCE MAJOR DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANETS

A team of planet hunters will announce its 
discovery of a new class of planets located 
beyond our solar system at a NASA Science 
Update at 10 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, Aug. 31.
The discovery represents a significant and
much-anticipated advance in the hunt for 
extra-solar planets.

Panelists include:

-- Dr. Geoffrey Marcy, University of California, 
Berkeley;
-- Dr. R. Paul Butler, Department of Terrestrial
Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington;
-- Dr. Barbara McArthur, University of Texas, Austin;
-- Dr. Alan Boss, staff research astronomer, 
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie
Institution of Washington;
-- Dr. Anne Kinney, moderator, director, Universe
Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA, 
Washington.

The news conference will be carried live on 
NASA Television, with two-way question-and-
answer capability from participating NASA 
centers. The event also will be Webcast live 
at:

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/webcasts/ssu_0804.html

Also, last Wednesday the European Southern 
Observatory announced the discovery of a 14 
Earth-mass extrasolar planet ...

http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2004/pr-22-04.html

The following paper appeared on the 
astrophysics preprint server ...

http://cul.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408471

Paul
Baton Rouge, LA



		
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