[meteorite-list] NASA Announces Stardust Comet Mission Briefing
Ron Baalke
baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Jan 18 19:07:14 EST 2006
Jan. 18, 2006
Merrilee Fellows/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington
(818) 393-0754/ (202)358-1237
William Jeffs
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(281) 483-5111
MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-008
NASA ANNOUNCES STARDUST COMET MISSION BRIEFING
NASA announced a news conference at 11 a.m. EST (10 a.m. CST) tomorrow
to discuss the comet and interstellar dust samples returned to Earth
by the Stardust spacecraft. The briefing is in room 135, Building 2,
Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston.
Participants:
-- Dr. Donald Brownlee, Stardust Principal Investigator, University of
Washington, Seattle
-- Dr. Peter Tsou, Deputy Principal Investigator, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Dr. Michael Zolensky, Stardust Curator and Co-investigator, Johnson
Space Center
-- Dr. Carlton Allen, Astromaterials Curator, Johnson Space Center
The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA TV with question
capability for reporters at participating NASA centers. Key
scientists will be available for live interviews via satellite from 5
to 7 p.m. EST, Thursday.
NASA TV's Public, Education and Media channels are available on an
MPEG-2 digital C-band signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72
degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical
polarization. In Alaska and Hawaii, they're on AMC-7 at 137 degrees
west longitude, transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal
polarization. A Digital Video Broadcast compliant Integrated Receiver
Decoder is required for reception. For digital downlink information
for each NASA TV channel and access to NASA TV's Public Channel on
the Web, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For images of the canister's opening and analysis on the Web, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/stardust
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