[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts Briefing To Preview Dawn Spacecraft Visit of Vesta

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:43:35 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201106201843.p5KIhZlJ015533_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

June 20, 2011

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

Jia-Rui Cook/Priscilla Vega
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-0850/1357
jccook at jpl.nasa.gov/priscilla.r.vega at jpl.nasa.gov


MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-126

NASA HOSTS BRIEFING TO PREVIEW SPACECRAFT VISIT OF LARGE ASTEROID

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on
Thursday, June 23, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's year-long visit
to the large asteroid Vesta. The mission expects to go into orbit
around Vesta on July 16 and begin gathering science data in early
August. The briefing will be held in the NASA Headquarters auditorium
located at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. NASA Television and the
agency's website will broadcast the event.

Dawn's visit to Vesta will be the first prolonged encounter to a main
belt asteroid and the first trip to a protoplanet, or large body that
almost became a planet. Observations will help understand the
earliest chapter of our solar system's history.

The briefing panelists are:
-- W. James Adams, deputy director, Planetary Science Directorate,
NASA Headquarters
-- Robert Mase, Dawn project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
Pasadena, Calif.
-- Christopher Russell, Dawn principal investigator, UCLA
-- Carol Raymond, Dawn deputy principal investigator, JPL

Reporters may attend the event, ask questions from participating NASA
locations or join by phone. To obtain dial-in information,
journalists must e-mail Dwayne Brown at dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov with
their name, media affiliation and work telephone number by 11 a.m. on
June 23.

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

The briefing also will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat
box available, at

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

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