[meteorite-list] NASA to Hold Media Call on Latest Images of Pluto from New Horizons Spacecraft

[Ron Baalke]

April 28, 2015

MEDIA ADVISORY M15-068

NASA to Hold Media Call on Latest Images of Pluto from New Horizons Spacecraft

NASA will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 29 
to discuss recent images returned from the New Horizons spacecraft as it 
nears its historic July 14 encounter with Pluto. Officials also will provide 
an update on the timeline and significance of images the mission team will 
receive in the coming weeks.

Participants will be:

 * John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission
   Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
 * Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research
   Institute, Boulder, Colorado
 * Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist, Long Range Reconnaissance
   Imager telescopic camera instrument team, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
   Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland

To participate by phone, media must contact Laurie Cantillo at 202-358-1077 
or laura.l.cantillo at nasa.gov and provide their media affiliation no later 
than 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For information about NASA's New Horizons mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons

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