Sept 27, 2006

Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237-1726

Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md 301-286-7745

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-152

NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS EXTRASOLAR PLANET ACROSS OUR GALAXY

NASA hosts a science update at 1 p m EDT, Wednesday, Oct 4, to discuss a Hubble Space Telescope discovery of extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars The update will be in the NASA Headquarters Auditorium, 300 E Street S W , Washington

Panelists: -- Jennifer Wiseman, Hubble program scientist, NASA Headquarters -- Kailash Sahu, principal investigator, Hubble Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) project, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md -- Mario Livio, co-investigator, Hubble SWEEPS project, Space Telescope Science Institute -- Alan Boss, Carnegie Institution of Washington

The conference will be live on NASA TV with question and answer capability from participating agency centers

NASA TV is available on the Web and on an MPEG-2 digital signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical polarization It's available in Alaska and Hawaii on AMC-7 at 137 degrees west longitude, transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal polarization A Digital Video Broadcast compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder is required for reception For NASA TV information and schedules, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov/home

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