[meteorite-list] Lecture: NASA's Going To My Comet
From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <201010272202.o9RM28hT010341_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.cfm?year=2010&month=11#myComet NASA's Going to my Comet Nov. 2, 2010 Back on March 15, 1986, while observing in Siding Spring, Australia, Hartley discovered the comet that would officially be designated Comet 103P/Hartley2 (Hartley 2). On November 4th, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission, the extended mission of the Deep Impact Spacecraft, will capture close-up images and other data as it flies within 750 kilometers (460 miles) of the comet's nucleus, estimated to be about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) in diameter. When the spacecraft reaches its fiery destination, EPOXI Mission team members, along with Mr.Hartley, will share their excitement with the public at a live post-encounter media briefing, to be held in the von Karman Auditorium at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The event will air at 6:30 AM PDT on the NASA television network. This event follows a celebrated primary mission for Deep Impact, during which it fired an instrumented projectile at Comet Tempel 1 to excavate a crater on July 4, 2005. Its extended mission, EPOXI, combines two objectives -- the Deep Impact Extended Investigation (DIXI), which focuses on the Hartley 2 flyby, and the Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization (EPOCh), which used one of the spacecraft's telescopic cameras to search for planets orbiting other stars. In addition, engineers have used the spacecraft to flight-test new protocols for space communications. Speakers: Mr. Malcolm Hartley, Comet Discoverer and Astronomer Mr. Tim Larson, JPL Advanced Concepts Development Manager, formerly Juno Mission Manager Location: Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, 7pm (PDT) The von Karman Auditorium at JPL 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA >Directions <http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/about_JPL/maps.cfm> Webcast: For the webcast on Tuesday at 7 p.m. PST, click here <http://realserver1.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/ramgen/broadcast/live.rm?mode=compact> If you don't have RealPlayer, you can download the free RealPlayer 8 Basic <http://www.real.com/>. Received on Wed 27 Oct 2010 06:02:08 PM PDT |
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