[meteorite-list] Lecture: NASA's Going To My Comet

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.cfm?year=2010&month=11#myComet    

NASA's Going to my Comet
Nov. 2, 2010

Back on March 15, 1986, while observing in Siding Spring, Australia,
Hartley discovered the comet that would officially be designated Comet
103P/Hartley2 (Hartley 2). On November 4th, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission,
the extended mission of the Deep Impact Spacecraft, will capture
close-up images and other data as it flies within 750 kilometers (460
miles) of the comet's nucleus, estimated to be about 1 kilometer (0.6
miles) in diameter.

When the spacecraft reaches its fiery destination, EPOXI Mission team
members, along with Mr.Hartley, will share their excitement with the
public at a live post-encounter media briefing, to be held in the von
Karman Auditorium at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The event will
air at 6:30 AM PDT on the NASA television network.

This event follows a celebrated primary mission for Deep Impact, during
which it fired an instrumented projectile at Comet Tempel 1 to excavate
a crater on July 4, 2005. Its extended mission, EPOXI, combines two
objectives -- the Deep Impact Extended Investigation (DIXI), which
focuses on the Hartley 2 flyby, and the Extrasolar Planet Observation
and Characterization (EPOCh), which used one of the spacecraft's
telescopic cameras to search for planets orbiting other stars. In
addition, engineers have used the spacecraft to flight-test new
protocols for space communications.


Speakers: 

Mr. Malcolm Hartley, Comet Discoverer and Astronomer
Mr. Tim Larson, JPL Advanced Concepts Development Manager, formerly Juno
Mission Manager

Location:

Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, 7pm (PDT)
The von Karman Auditorium at JPL
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA
>Directions <http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/about_JPL/maps.cfm>

Webcast:

For the webcast on Tuesday at 7 p.m. PST, click here
<http://realserver1.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/ramgen/broadcast/live.rm?mode=compact>

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