[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts Media Teleconference To Preview Comet Encounter

[Ron Baalke]

Oct. 25, 2010

Dwayne Brown      
Headquarters, Washington 
202-358-1726 
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov 

DC Agle 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
818-393-9011 
agle at jpl.nasa.gov 

Lee Tune 
University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 
301-405-4679 
ltune at umd.edu 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-152

NASA HOSTS MEDIA TELECONFERENCE TO PREVIEW COMET ENCOUNTER

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 11 a.m. 
PDT on Tuesday Oct. 26, to preview the EPOXI mission's upcoming flyby 
and study of the comet Hartley 2. The Nov. 4 encounter will provide 
the best, extended view of a comet in history. 

The EPOXI mission, which uses the already "in-flight" Deep Impact 
spacecraft, will pass within approximately 435 miles of the 
half-mile-wide comet. The spacecraft will use two telescopes with 
digital color cameras and an infrared spectrometer to examine the 
dusty, icy body in detail during the flyby. 

To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact the media 
relations office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, 
Calif., at 818-354-5011 to obtain the call-in number and passcode. 

Teleconference participants are: 

-- Michael A'Hearn, principal investigator, University of Maryland in 
College Park, Md. 
-- Tim Larson, EPOXI project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
-- Amy Walsh, EPOXI systems engineering lead, Ball Aerospace & 
Technologies in Boulder, Colo. 
-- Malcolm Hartley, astronomer and discoverer of Hartley 2 

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 

The term EPOXI is a combination of the names for the two extended 
mission components: the Extrasolar Planet Observations and 
Characterization (EPOCh), and the Hartley 2 flyby, called the Deep 
Impact eXtended Investigation (DIXI). For more information about 
EPOXI, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/epoxi 

http://epoxi.umd.edu 
	
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