[meteorite-list] NASA To Unveil Full-Frame Image Of Vesta At News Conference

From: Leos Ondra <astronomy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:58:31 +0200
Message-ID: <4E307BF7.9090201_at_webby.cz>

Living a few kilometers from Stannern (Stona?ov today) of the famous
1808 eteorite fall of 60+ eucrites believed to come from the south pole
crater on Vesta) I cant't wait first results! Leo

Ron Baalke napsal(a):
>
> July 27, 2011
>
> Trent J. Perrotto
> Headquarters, Washington
> 202-358-0321
> trent.j.perrotto at nasa.gov
>
> Priscilla Vega
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> 818-354-1357
> priscilla.r.vega at jpl.nasa.gov
>
> MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-157
>
> NASA TO UNVEIL FULL-FRAME IMAGE OF VESTA AT NEWS CONFERENCE
>
> WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference on Monday, Aug. 1, at 2
> p.m. EDT, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's successful orbit insertion
> around Vesta on July 15 and unveil the first full-frame images from
> Dawn's framing camera. The news conference will be held in the Von
> Karman auditorium at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 4800 Oak
> Grove Dr., Pasadena, Calif. Journalists also may ask questions from
> participating NASA locations or join by phone. To obtain dial-in
> information, journalists must contact JPL's Media Relations Office at
> 818-354-5011 by 9 a.m. PDT on Aug. 1.
>
> NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the event. It
> also will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat box available,
> at:
>
> http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
>
> The news conference panelists are:
> -- Colleen Hartman, assistant associate administrator, Science Mission
> Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
> -- Charles Elachi, director, JPL
> -- Marc Rayman, chief engineer and mission manager, JPL
> -- Christopher Russell, Dawn principal investigator, University of
> California, Los Angeles
> -- Holger Sierks, framing camera team member, Max Planck Society,
> Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
> -- Enrico Flamini, chief scientist, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome,
> Italy
>
> Although Dawn is collecting some science data now, the mission's
> intensive collection of information will begin in early August.
> Observations of the giant asteroid Vesta will provide unprecedented
> data to help scientists understand the earliest chapter of our solar
> system. Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid in the main
> asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After spending one year
> orbiting Vesta, Dawn will travel to a second destination, the dwarf
> planet Ceres, and arrive there in February 2015.
>
> For more information about Dawn, visit:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/dawn
>
> For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
>
> -end-
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