[meteorite-list] NASA To Host Media Teleconference On Probes' Moon Orbit Insertion (GRAIL)

[Ron Baalke]

Dec. 23, 2011

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 

Caroline McCall 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 
617-253-1682 
cmccall5 at mit.edu 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-426

NASA TO HOST MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON PROBES' MOON ORBIT INSERTION

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. 
PST on Wednesday, Dec. 28, to preview twin spacecraft being placed in 
orbit around the moon on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. 

NASA's twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) 
probes were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sept. 
10, 2011. GRAIL-A is scheduled to arrive in lunar orbit beginning at 
1:21 p.m. PST on Saturday, Dec. 31, and GRAIL-B on Sunday, Jan. 1, 
beginning at 2:05 p.m. PST. After confirmation they are in orbit and 
operating nominally, the two solar-powered spacecraft will fly in 
tandem orbits to answer longstanding questions about the moon and 
give scientists a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky 
planets in the solar system formed. 

Participants are: 
- Maria Zuber, principal investigator, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge 
- David Lehman, project manager, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
(JPL), Pasadena, Calif. 

To participate, reporters must contact the JPL Media Relations Office 
at 818-354-5011 by 10:30 a.m. PST on Dec. 28 for the call-in number 
and passcode. 

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 

Supporting images will be available 15 minutes prior to the 
teleconference at: 

http://1.usa.gov/grailnews 

For more information about GRAIL visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/grail 
	
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