[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts Feb. 7 Media Teleconference On Asteroid Earth Flyby (2012 DA14

[Ron Baalke]

Feb. 04, 2013

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

D.C. Agle 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
818-393-9011 
agle at jpl.nasa.gov 

Nancy Neal Jones 
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
301-286-0039 
nancy.n.jones at nasa.gov 


MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-027

NASA HOSTS FEB. 7 MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON ASTEROID EARTH FLYBY

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST, 
Thursday, Feb. 7, to discuss an asteroid 150-feet in diameter that 
will pass close, but safely, by Earth on Feb. 15. The flyby creates a 
unique opportunity for researchers to observe and learn more about 
asteroids. 

The teleconference participants are: 
--Lindley Johnson, program executive, Near-Earth Object (NEO) 
Observations Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington 
--Timothy Spahr, director, Minor Planet Center, Harvard-Smithsonian 
Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass. 
--Donald Yeomans, manager, NEO Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
(JPL), Pasadena, Calif. 
--Amy Mainzer, principal investigator, NEOWISE observatory, JPL 
--Edward Beshore, deputy principal investigator, Origins-Spectral 
Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer 
Asteroid Sample Return Mission, University of Arizona, Tucson 

Reporters can obtain dial-in information by sending an email to Dwayne 
Brown at dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov by noon Thursday. Requests must 
include the reporter's name, affiliation and telephone number. 

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 

Related images for the teleconference will be available at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/telecon20130207.html 

For detailed information concerning the Earth flyby of 2012 DA14, 
visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html 

A Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space 
Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be broadcast from 9 p.m. to 
midnight EST on Feb. 15. To view the feed and ask researchers 
questions via Twitter about the flyby, visit: 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc 

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