[meteorite-list] NASA Briefing to Discuss First Spacecraft Arrival at a Dwarf Planet

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4488

NASA Briefing to Discuss First Spacecraft Arrival at a Dwarf Planet
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
February 24, 2015

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will host a briefing at 9 a.m. PST (noon 
EST) Monday, March 2, to discuss the March 6 arrival of the agency's Dawn 
spacecraft at the dwarf planet Ceres. The news briefing, held at JPL's 
von Karman Auditorium at 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California, will 
be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website.

Ceres, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is 
the largest unexplored world of the inner solar system. Dawn will not 
only be the first spacecraft to reach a dwarf planet, it will be the first 
spacecraft ever to orbit two different worlds in deep space.

Dawn was the first spacecraft to orbit a body in the main asteroid belt 
when it explored the giant asteroid Vesta from 2011 to 2012.

Participants in the news conference will be:

-- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, 
Washington

-- Robert Mase, Dawn project manager, JPL

-- Carol Raymond, Dawn deputy principal investigator, JPL

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

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

The briefing will also be streamed live on Ustream at:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

For information about NASA's Dawn mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/dawn


Media Contact

Elizabeth Landau
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-6425
elizabeth.landau at jpl.nasa.gov 

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

2015-065