NASA Hosts Feb. 7 Media Teleconference On Asteroid Earth Flyby

Feb. 04, 2013

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

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

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