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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