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 [email protected] 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
Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
[email protected]
D.C. Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-9011
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Nancy Neal Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-0039
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