[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts Feb. 7 Media Teleconference On Asteroid Earth Flyby (2012 DA14

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:55:37 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <201302051655.r15Gtbkm013579_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

Feb. 04, 2013

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

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

Nancy Neal Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-0039
nancy.n.jones at nasa.gov


MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-027

NASA HOSTS FEB. 7 MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON ASTEROID EARTH FLYBY

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST,
Thursday, Feb. 7, to discuss an asteroid 150-feet in diameter that
will pass close, but safely, by Earth on Feb. 15. The flyby creates a
unique opportunity for researchers to observe and learn more about
asteroids.

The teleconference participants are:
--Lindley Johnson, program executive, Near-Earth Object (NEO)
Observations Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
--Timothy Spahr, director, Minor Planet Center, Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
--Donald Yeomans, manager, NEO Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL), Pasadena, Calif.
--Amy Mainzer, principal investigator, NEOWISE observatory, JPL
--Edward Beshore, deputy principal investigator, Origins-Spectral
Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer
Asteroid Sample Return Mission, University of Arizona, Tucson

Reporters can obtain dial-in information by sending an email to Dwayne
Brown at dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov by noon Thursday. Requests must
include the reporter's name, affiliation and telephone number.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

Related images for the teleconference will be available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/telecon20130207.html

For detailed information concerning the Earth flyby of 2012 DA14,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html

A Ustream feed of the flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will be broadcast from 9 p.m. to
midnight EST on Feb. 15. To view the feed and ask researchers
questions via Twitter about the flyby, visit:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc

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Received on Tue 05 Feb 2013 11:55:37 AM PST