[meteorite-list] NASA To Unveil Anatomy of a Comet

[Ron Baalke]

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washingto                June 15, 2004
(Phone: 202/358-1726

Jane Platt/DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif
(Phone: 818/354-0880; 818/393-9011)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N04-091

NASA UNVEILS ANATOMY OF A COMET 

     Findings from the historic encounter between NASA's 
Stardust spacecraft and a comet will be discussed during the 
next Space Science Update (SSU). The SSU is 2 p.m. EDT, 
Thursday in the NASA Headquarters Webb Auditorium, 300 E St. 
SW, Washington.

The findings were made when Stardust flew within 236 
kilometers (about 147 miles) of comet Wild 2 on Jan. 2, 2004. 
It captured the most detailed, high-resolution comet images 
ever seen.

SSU Participants:

-- Dr. Thomas Morgan, Stardust program scientist, NASA Office 
of Space Science, Washington
-- Dr. Donald Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator, 
University of Washington, Seattle
-- Dr. Benton Clark, Chief Scientist of Space Exploration 
Systems, Lockheed Martin, Denver 
-- Dr. Claudia Alexander, Project Scientist, U.S. Rosetta 
Project, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

NASA TV will carry the SSU live with two-way question-and-
answer capability for reporters covering the event from 
participating NASA centers. NASA TV and live webcast is 
available on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85 
degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. 
Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. 
For NASA TV and webcast information on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Reporters who would like to listen to the findings via audio 
should call: 818/354-6666. Listen-only service is available 
at: 321/867-1220/1240/1260. 

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