NASA Experts Discuss Russia Meteor in Media Teleconference Today

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Media advisory: 2013-062b Feb. 15, 2013

NASA Experts Discuss Russia Meteor in Media Teleconference Today

PASADENA -- NASA experts will hold a teleconference for news media at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST)
today to discuss a meteor that streaked through the skies over Russia's Urals region this morning.

Scientists have determined the Russia meteor is not related to asteroid 2012 DA14, which will safely
pass Earth today at a distance of more than 17,000 miles (27,360 kilometers). Early assessments of
the Russia meteor indicate it was about one-third the size of 2012 DA14 and traveling in a different
direction.

Panelists for the teleconference are:

-- Bill Cooke, lead for the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
in Huntsville, Ala.
-- Paul Chodas, research scientist in the Near Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

The teleconference will be carried live online at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio .

For detailed information concerning the Earth flyby of 2012 DA14, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html , with the latest images and
video online at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/main/index.html .

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