[meteorite-list] NASA To Host News Conference On Asteroid Search Findings

[Ron Baalke]

Sept. 26, 2011

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

Whitney Clavin 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
818-354-4673 
whitney.clavin at jpl.nasa.gov 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-206

NASA TO HOST NEWS CONFERENCE ON ASTEROID SEARCH FINDINGS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on 
Thurs., Sept. 29, to reveal near-Earth asteroid findings and 
implications for future research. The briefing will take place in the 
NASA Headquarters James E. Webb Auditorium, located at 300 E St. SW 
in Washington. 

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, launched in 
December 2009, captured millions of images of galaxies and objects in 
space. During the news conference, panelists will discuss results 
from an enhancement of WISE called Near-Earth Object WISE (NEOWISE) 
that hunted for asteroids. 

The panelists are: 
-- Lindley Johnson, NEO program executive, NASA Headquarters, 
Washington 
-- Amy Mainzer, NEOWISE principal investigator, NASA's Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
-- Tim Spahr, director, Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical 
Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. 
-- Lucy McFadden, scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, 
Greenbelt, Md. 

Reporters unable to attend may ask questions from participating NASA 
centers or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must 
contact Dwayne Brown at 202-358-1726 or dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov by 10 
a.m. EDT on Sept. 29. 

The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. 
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, 
visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

The briefing also will be streamed live, with a chat available, at: 

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 

For more information about the mission, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/wise 
	
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