[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts Media Teleconference To Preview Comet Encounter

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:52:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201010252052.o9PKqksX019352_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

Oct. 25, 2010

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

DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-9011
agle at jpl.nasa.gov

Lee Tune
University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
301-405-4679
ltune at umd.edu

MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-152

NASA HOSTS MEDIA TELECONFERENCE TO PREVIEW COMET ENCOUNTER

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 11 a.m.
PDT on Tuesday Oct. 26, to preview the EPOXI mission's upcoming flyby
and study of the comet Hartley 2. The Nov. 4 encounter will provide
the best, extended view of a comet in history.

The EPOXI mission, which uses the already "in-flight" Deep Impact
spacecraft, will pass within approximately 435 miles of the
half-mile-wide comet. The spacecraft will use two telescopes with
digital color cameras and an infrared spectrometer to examine the
dusty, icy body in detail during the flyby.

To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact the media
relations office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
Calif., at 818-354-5011 to obtain the call-in number and passcode.

Teleconference participants are:

-- Michael A'Hearn, principal investigator, University of Maryland in
College Park, Md.
-- Tim Larson, EPOXI project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
-- Amy Walsh, EPOXI systems engineering lead, Ball Aerospace &
Technologies in Boulder, Colo.
-- Malcolm Hartley, astronomer and discoverer of Hartley 2

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

The term EPOXI is a combination of the names for the two extended
mission components: the Extrasolar Planet Observations and
Characterization (EPOCh), and the Hartley 2 flyby, called the Deep
Impact eXtended Investigation (DIXI). For more information about
EPOXI, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/epoxi

http://epoxi.umd.edu
        
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