NASA to Hold News Teleconference to Discuss Planck Cosmology Findings (Update)

March 19, 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

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NASA TO HOLD NEWS TELECONFERENCE TO DISCUSS PLANCK COSMOLOGY FINDINGS (UPDATE)

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news teleconference 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.

Planck launched into space in 2009 and has been scanning the skies
ever since, mapping cosmic microwave background, or the afterglow, of
the theoretical big bang that created the universe more than 13
billion years ago. NASA contributed mission-enabling technology for
both of Planck's science instruments, and U.S., European and Canadian
scientists work together to analyze the Planck data.

The teleconference 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., and Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory
-- Krzysztof Gorski, U.S. Planck scientist, JPL
-- Marc Kamionkowski, professor of physics and astronomy, John Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Md.

This event previously was scheduled as a televised news conference.

For teleconference dial-in information, media representatives should
e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to J.D.
Harrington at j.d.harrington@nasa.gov by 10 a.m., March 21. Media
representatives and the public can also send questions via Twitter
using the hashtag #AskNASA.

Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's
Planck website:

http://www.nasa.gov/planck

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website
at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

The event will also be streamed live on Ustream at:

http://www.ustream/tv/nasajpl2

For additional information about Planck, visit:

http://www.esa.int/planck


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