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
