NASA TV News Conference To Discuss Planck Cosmology Findings

March 15, 2013

J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-5241
j.d.harrington@nasa.gov

Whitney Clavin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-4673
whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov


MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-048

NASA TV NEWS CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS PLANCK COSMOLOGY FINDINGS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT
Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from
Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA
participation.

The briefing will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA
Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington. It will be broadcast live
on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website.

Planck launched into space in 2009 and has been scanning the skies
ever since, mapping cosmic microwave background, or the afterglow, of
the big bang that created our universe more than 13 billion years
ago.

The briefing participants are:
-- Paul Hertz, director of astrophysics, NASA, Washington
-- Charles Lawrence, U.S. Planck project scientist, NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.
-- Martin White, U.S. Planck scientist, University of California,
Berkeley, Calif.
-- Krzysztof Gorski, U.S. Planck scientist, JPL
-- Marc Kamionkowski, professor of physics and astronomy, John Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Md.

News media representatives may ask questions from participating NASA
centers or by telephone. To participate by phone, reporters must send
an email providing name, media affiliation and telephone number to
j.d.harrington@nasa.gov by 10 a.m. March 21. News media
representatives and the public may send questions via Twitter to
#AskNASA.

For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

The event will also be streamed live on Ustream at:

http://www.ustream/tv/nasajpl2

For more information about Planck, visit

http://www.nasa.gov/planck


and


http://www.esa.int/planck


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