Nov 10, 2009

Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0668/1756 grey hautaluoma-1@nasa gov ashley edwards-1@nasa gov

Michael Mewhinney
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif 650-604-3937 michael s mewhinney@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-215

NASA BRIEFS PRELIMINARY PLUME FINDINGS FROM MOON MISSION

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif -- NASA will hold a news conference Friday to talk about early science results from its successful moon impacting mission, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS The satellite gained worldwide attention when it plunged into a crater near the moon's south pole on Oct 9

The briefing from NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif , will begin at 9 a m PST, on Nov 13 It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

The panelists are: - Doug Cooke, associate administrator, Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington - Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist for Exploration Systems at NASA Headquarters - Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from Ames - Greg Delory, senior fellow, Space Sciences Laboratory and Center for Integrative Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley

To attend or participate by telephone reporters should contact Jonas Dino (jonas dino@nasa gov) at 650-604-5612 or Rachel Prucey (rachel l prucey@nasa gov) at 650-604-0643

For information about the LCROSS mission, visit:

http://www nasa gov/lcross

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