[meteorite-list] NASA Hosts News and Social Media Events Around This Week's Asteroid Pass

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:17:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201305291717.r4THH02i019954_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

May 29, 2013

Sarah Ramsey
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1694
sarah.ramsey at nasa.gov


MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-086

NASA HOSTS NEWS AND SOCIAL MEDIA EVENTS AROUND THIS WEEK'S ASTEROID PASS

WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting members of the media and public to
participate in online and television events May 30-31 with NASA
officials and experts discussing the agency's asteroid initiative and
the Earth flyby of the 1.7-mile-long asteroid 1998 QE2.

At 4:59 p.m. EDT, Friday, May 31, 1998 QE2 will pass by Earth at a
safe distance of about 3.6 million miles -- its closest approach for
at least the next two centuries. The asteroid was discovered Aug. 19,
1998, by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Near
Earth Asteroid Research Program near Socorro, N.M.

The schedule of events is:

Thursday, May 30
-- 1:30-2:30 p.m.: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena,
Calif., will show on NASA Television live telescope images of the
asteroid and host a discussion with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
and experts from JPL and the Goldstone Deep Space Communications
Complex. Scientists at Goldstone will be using radar to track and
image the asteroid.

The event also will be streamed live on the agency's website at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

The event also will be available on Ustream.tv with live chat
capability at:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

Viewers may submit questions in advance to _at_AsteroidWatch on Twitter
with the hashtag #asteroidQE2.

-- 8-10 p.m.: Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will host an online
chat at:

http://www.nasa.gov/chat


Friday, May 31

-- 2-3 p.m., NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will participate in
a White House "We the Geeks" Google+ Hangout. Participants will
discuss asteroid identification, characterization, resource
utilization, and hazard mitigation. The hangout can be viewed at the
White House website at:

https://plus.google.com/+whitehouse/posts

NASA recently announced plans to find, study, capture and relocate an
asteroid for exploration by astronauts. The asteroid initiative is a
strategy to leverage human and robotic activities for the first human
mission while accelerating efforts to improve detection and
characterization of asteroids.

For more about NASA's asteroid activities, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/asteroid
        
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Received on Wed 29 May 2013 01:17:00 PM PDT