[meteorite-list] NASA Announces Stardust Mission Media Update for January 24

[Ron Baalke]

Jan. 20, 2006

Merrilee Fellows/Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington
(818) 393-0754/ (202) 358-1237

William Jeffs
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(281) 483-5111 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-015

NASA ANNOUNCES STARDUST MISSION MEDIA UPDATE

The next Stardust comet mission media briefing is at 1 p.m. EST (noon, 
CST), Tuesday, Jan 24 in room 135, Building 2, Johnson Space Center, 
2101 NASA Parkway, Houston. 

The briefing will be live on NASA TV with questions also from 
reporters at participating agency centers. NASA experts will discuss 
the analysis of comet and interstellar dust samples returned by the 
Stardust spacecraft. 

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 

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 Stardust canister opening and analysis on the Web, 
visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/stardust
	
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