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

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:13:27 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201507220013.t6M0DRtR008095_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

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

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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
Received on Tue 21 Jul 2015 08:13:27 PM PDT