April 15, 2013

J D Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j d harrington@nasa gov

Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif 650-604-4789 michele johnson@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-062

NASA HOSTS MEDIA BRIEFING TO DISCUSS KEPLER PLANETARY DISCOVERY

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p m EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission

The briefing will be held in the Syvertson Auditorium, Building N-201, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif , and be broadcast live on NASA Television and on the agency's website

Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water Launched in 2009, the Kepler space telescope is detecting planets and planet candidates with a wide range of sizes and orbital distances to help us better understand our place in the galaxy

The briefing participants are:

-- Paul Hertz, astrophysics director, NASA Headquarters, Washington -- Roger Hunter, Kepler project manager, Ames -- William Borucki, Kepler science principal investigator, Ames -- Thomas Barclay, Kepler scientist, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Sonoma, Calif -- Lisa Kaltenegger, research group leader, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, and research associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass

News media representatives may attend in-person or by teleconference To register or obtain dial-in information, contact Michele Johnson at 650-604-4789 or michele johnson@nasa gov by noon EDT Thursday, April 18

To reach Ames, take U S Highway 101 to the Moffett Field-NASA Parkway exit and drive east toward the main gate Media representatives must obtain a badge at the Visitor Badge Office, located at the main gate

News media representatives and the public may submit questions via Twitter to #AskNASA

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

The event also will be streamed live on Ustream at:

http://www ustream tv/channel/nasa-arc

For more information about the Kepler mission and to view the digital press kit, visit:

http://www nasa gov/kepler

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