[meteorite-list] NASA to Hold News Conference on Asteroid Mission Results (Dawn)

[Ron Baalke]

May 7, 2012

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

Jia-Rui Cook 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
818-354-0850 
jccook at jpl.nasa.gov 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-082

NASA TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ON ASTEROID MISSION RESULTS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference on Thursday, May 10, at 
2 p.m. EDT to present a new analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta 
using data from the agency's Dawn spacecraft. 

The event will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA 
Headquarters located at 300 E St. SW in Washington. The event will be 
broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's 
website. The journal Science has embargoed the findings prior to the 
news conference. 

The panelists for the briefing are: 
-- Carol Raymond, Dawn deputy principal investigator, NASA's Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
-- Harry McSween, chair, Dawn surface composition working group, 
University of Tennessee, Knoxville 
-- Vishnu Reddy, Dawn framing camera team member, Max Planck Institute 
for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, and the 
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks 
-- David O'Brien, Dawn participating scientist, Planetary Science 
Institute, Tucson, Ariz. 
-- Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Dawn co-investigator and visible and 
infrared mapping spectrometer team lead, Italian National Institute 
for Astrophysics, Rome 

Reporters unable to attend the briefing in-person can ask questions 
from other NASA centers, by telephone or via Twitter using the 
hashtag #asknasa. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must 
send their name, affiliation and telephone number to 
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov by noon on May 10. 

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

The event will be streamed live on Ustream with a moderated chat 
available at: 

http://www.ustream.com/nasajpl2 

For more information about Dawn, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/dawn 
	
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