NASA to Hold News Conference on Dawn Mission Results

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Advisory: 2012-126 May 7, 2012

NASA to Hold News Conference on Dawn Mission Results

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-126&cid=release_2012-126

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a news conference on Thursday, May 10, at 11 a.m. PDT (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 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, broadcast live on NASA Television
and streamed on the agency's website. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling
information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv .

The event will also be streamed live on Ustream with a moderated chat available at:
http://www.ustream.com/nasajpl2 . Questions may also be asked via Twitter using the hashtag
#asknasa .

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

More information about Dawn is at: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov .

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