[meteorite-list] NASA to Hold Media Call to Discuss Surprising Observations of Pluto's Moons

[Ron Baalke]

May 28, 2015

MEDIA ADVISORY M15-085

NASA to Hold Media Call to Discuss Surprising Observations of Pluto's Moons

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 3, to 
discuss the Hubble Space Telescope's surprising observations of how 
Pluto's moons behave, and how these new discoveries are being used in the 
planning for the New Horizons Pluto flyby in July.

Participants in the teleconference will be:

 * John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission
   Directorate in Washington
 * Mark Showalter, senior research scientist at the SETI Institute in
   Mountain View, California
 * Douglas Hamilton, professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland,
   College Park
 * John Spencer, scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder,
   Colorado
 * Heidi Hammel, executive vice president of the Association of Universities
   for Research in Astronomy in Washington

To participate by phone, reporters must contact Felicia Chou at 202-358-0257 
or felicia.chou at nasa.gov and provide their media affiliation no later than 10 
a.m. Wednesday.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For information about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/hubble

For information about Pluto and NASA’s New Horizons mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons

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