Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-016
NASA HOSTS BRIEFING ON NEW OBSERVATIONS OF INTERSTELLAR MATTER
WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a Science Update at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday,
Jan. 31, 2012, to discuss new analysis from NASA's Interstellar
Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft of material from outside our
solar system and the interstellar boundary region that surrounds our
home in space.
The interstellar boundary region shields our solar system from most of
the dangerous galactic cosmic radiation that otherwise would enter
the solar system from interstellar space.
The briefing will take place at NASA Headquarters in the James E. Webb
Auditorium, located at 300 E St. SW, Washington, and will air live on
NASA Television and the agency's website.
Briefing panelists are:
-- David McComas, IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice
president of the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest
Research Institute in San Antonio
-- Priscilla Frisch, senior scientist, Department of Astronomy and
Astrophysics at the University of Chicago
- Eberhard M��bius, professor, Space Science Center and Department of
Physics University of New Hampshire and currently visiting professor
at the Space Science and Applications Group Los Alamos National
Laboratory, N.M.
-- Seth Redfield, assistant professor, Astronomy Department, Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Conn.
Reporters unable to attend may ask questions from participating NASA
centers or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must
contact Dwayne Brown at 202-358-1726 or dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov by 11
a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31.
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information,
visit:
For more information about NASA's IBEX mission, visit:
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