[meteorite-list] Update -- New Event Time NASA To Unveil Vesta Images At News Conference

[Ron Baalke]

July 28, 2011

Trent J. Perrotto 
Headquarters, Washington                                         
202-358-0321 
trent.j.perrotto at nasa.gov 

Priscilla Vega                     
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
818-354-1357 
priscilla.r.vega at jpl.nasa.gov 


MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-160

UPDATE -- NEW EVENT TIME NASA TO UNVEIL VESTA IMAGES AT NEWS CONFERENCE

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference on Monday, Aug. 1, at 
noon EDT, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's successful orbit insertion 
around Vesta on July 15 and unveil the first full-frame images from 
Dawn's framing camera. The news conference will be held in the Von 
Karman auditorium at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 4800 Oak 
Grove Dr., Pasadena, Calif. Journalists also may ask questions from 
participating NASA locations or join by phone. 

To obtain dial-in information, journalists must contact JPL's Media 
Relations Office at 818-354-5011 by 8 a.m. PDT 
on Aug. 1. 

NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the event. It 
also will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat box available, 
at: 

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 

The news conference panelists are: 
-- Colleen Hartman, assistant associate administrator, Science Mission 
Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington 
-- Charles Elachi, director, JPL 
-- Marc Rayman, chief engineer and mission manager, JPL 
-- Christopher Russell, Dawn principal investigator, University of 
California, Los Angeles 
-- Holger Sierks, framing camera team member, Max Planck Society, 
Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany 
-- Enrico Flamini, chief scientist, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, 
Italy 

Although Dawn is collecting some science data now, the mission's 
intensive collection of information will begin in early August. 
Observations of the giant asteroid Vesta will provide unprecedented 
data to help scientists understand the earliest chapter of our solar 
system. Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid in the main 
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After spending one year 
orbiting Vesta, Dawn will travel to a second destination, the dwarf 
planet Ceres, and arrive there in February 2015. 

For more information about Dawn, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/dawn 

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 
	
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