[meteorite-list] NASA, ESA Discuss Rosetta Comet Mission in Media Teleconference

[Ron Baalke]

January 23, 2014

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

DC Agle/Jia-Rui Cook
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-9011/818-354-0850
agle at jpl.nasa.gov / jia-rui.c.cook at jpl.nasa.gov
     
MEDIA ADVISORY M14-020
     
NASA, ESA Discuss Rosetta Comet Mission in Media Teleconference

NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EST Friday, Jan. 24, to discuss  
the road ahead for the three U.S. science instruments, as well as other NASA  
support, that are part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission.

Having been reactivated Monday after a record 957 days in hibernation, the  
spacecraft will be the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on its  
nucleus.

The Rosetta mission could help inform NASA's asteroid initiative, which will  
be the first mission to identify, capture and relocate an asteroid for  
astronauts to explore.

The teleconference participants are:

--James Green, director of planetary science, NASA Headquarters, Washington
--Mark McCaughrean, ESA senior scientific advisor, Noordwijk, Netherlands
--Matthew Taylor, ESA Rosetta project scientist, Noordwijk
--Claudia Alexander, U.S. Rosetta project scientist, Jet Propulsion  
Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.
--Art Chmielewski, U.S. Rosetta project manager, JPL

To participate by phone, reporters must send an email providing name, media  
affiliation and telephone number to Dwayne Brown at dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov  
or call Brown at 202-358-1726 by 11:45 a.m. EST Friday.

The teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 

Related images will be available at the start of the teleconference at:

http://go.nasa.gov/1jqyKG7 

For more information about Rosetta, visit:

http://www.esa.int/rosetta 

and

http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov 

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