[meteorite-list] NASA Views Complex World: New Horizons Pluto Science Update Set for July 24

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-views-complex-world-new-horizons-pluto-science-update-set-for-july-24

M15-112

NASA Views Complex World: New Horizons Pluto Science Update Set for July 24
July 21, 2015

[Image]
A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of 
Pluto's Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy 
plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was acquired by 
New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015 
from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) and received on Earth 
on July 20. Features as small as a half-mile (1 kilometer) across are 
visible.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI

Members of NASA's New Horizons team will hold a science update at 2 p.m. 
EDT Friday, July 24, to reveal new images and discuss latest science results 
from the spacecraft's historic July 14 flight through the Pluto system.

The briefing will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 
located at 300 E St. SW in Washington. NASA Television and the agency's 
website will carry the briefing live.

The briefing participants are:

	* Jim Green, director of Planetary Science at NASA Headquarters
	* Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator at Southwest Research 
Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado
	* Michael Summers, New Horizons co-investigator at George Mason University 
in Fairfax, Virginia
	* William McKinnon, New Horizons co-investigator at Washington University 
in St. Louis
	* Cathy Olkin, New Horizons deputy project scientist at SwRI

Media may ask questions by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters 
must send an email providing their name, affiliation and telephone number 
to Felicia Chou at felicia.chou at nasa.gov by noon Friday. Media and the 
public also may ask questions during the briefing on Twitter using the 
hashtag #askNASA.

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

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more information on the New Horizons mission, including fact sheets, 
schedules, video and images, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons

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Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo
Headquarters, Washington                                              
                        
202-358-1726 / 202-358-1077
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov / laura.l.cantillo at nasa.gov

Mike Buckley
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.
240-228-7536
michael.buckley at jhuapl.edu

Maria Stothoff
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
210-522-3305
maria.stothoff at swri.org