May 7, 2012

Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726 dwayne c brown@nasa gov

Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-082

NASA TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ON ASTEROID MISSION RESULTS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference on Thursday, May 10, at 2 p m EDT to present a new analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta using data from the agency's Dawn spacecraft

The event will be held in the James E Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters located at 300 E St SW in Washington The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website The journal Science has embargoed the findings prior to the news conference

The panelists for the briefing are: -- Carol Raymond, Dawn deputy principal investigator, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif -- Harry McSween, chair, Dawn surface composition working group, University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- Vishnu Reddy, Dawn framing camera team member, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, and the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks -- David O'Brien, Dawn participating scientist, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Ariz -- Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Dawn co-investigator and visible and infrared mapping spectrometer team lead, Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome

Reporters unable to attend the briefing in-person can ask questions from other NASA centers, by telephone or via Twitter using the hashtag #asknasa To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to dwayne c brown@nasa gov by noon on May 10

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

The event will be streamed live on Ustream with a moderated chat available at:

http://www ustream com/nasajpl2

For more information about Dawn, visit:

http://www nasa gov/dawn

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