[FPSPACE] FW: Press Release N° 33-2005 - Deep Impact

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "ESA" <contactesa at esa.int>
>Reply-To: ContactESA at esa.int
>Subject: Press Release N° 33-2005 - Deep Impact
>Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:37:47 +0200
>
>No.33-2005 – Paris, 21 June 2005
>
>Deep Impact: getting to the heart of a comet with Europe’s contribution
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>On 4 July 2005 at 07:52 CEST (Central European Summer Time), NASA’s Deep 
>Impact mission, launched on 12 January this year, will start exploring a 
>comet's interior by producing a crater with an impactor spacecraft, 
>allowing another spacecraft to look deep inside the comet during a fly-by 
>immediately afterwards.
>
>For the first time, it will be possible to study the crust and the interior 
>of a comet. As the material inside the comet's nucleus is pristine, it will 
>reveal new information on the early phases of the solar system. This is a 
>natural precursor to ESA’s Rosetta cometary mission, which seeks to perform 
>the subtler task of orbiting and landing on a comet.
>
>The impact will produce a crater expected to range in size from a house to 
>a football stadium and reach an unknown depth. Ice and dust debris will be 
>ejected from the crater, revealing fresh material beneath. Sunlight 
>reflecting off the ejected material will provide some brightening that will 
>fade as the debris dissipates into space or falls back onto the comet. 
>Dramatic images of the impactor spacecraft’s final approach and possibly of 
>the impact itself and of the crater will be sent to Earth in near-real time 
>by both spacecraft.
>
>Several observatories in orbit around Earth and countless Earth-bound 
>telescopes will work in concert for an unprecedented global observation 
>campaign to collect a maximum amount of additional data and information on 
>this event.
>
>ESA will use both its Rosetta comet chaser and the XMM/Newton Observatory 
>to observe the impact. ESA’s 1-metre OGS telescope on Tenerife (Canary 
>Islands, Spain) will be used for observations from the ground. The NASA/ESA 
>Hubble Space Telescope will also observe the event.
>
>The European Southern Observatory (ESO) will direct all seven telescopes it 
>operates at the La Silla and Parañal sites in Chile towards the event, 
>amongst them the Earth’s currently most powerful and highest-resolution 
>instruments in the infrared and visible wavelength ranges.
>
>Initial data from these European observations will be available on 4 and 5 
>July, beginning a few hours after the impact, to enhance the images and 
>information from the Deep Impact spacecraft itself.
>
>Highlights of the day will be:
>
>4 July	07:15 CEST (05:15 GMT) – ESA TV live event (approx 60 minutes) based 
>on NASA-TV plus studio interviews and inserts, with links to ESO, MPI 
>Lindau (Rosetta), ESA/ ESAC (XMM/Newton) and  ESA/ESOC (mission 
>operations).
>
>09:30 CEST (07:30 GMT) – ESA TV update on European observations (approx 20 
>minutes).
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>10:00 CEST (08:00 GMT) – NASA media briefing – live rebroadcast by ESA  TV  
>(approx 30 minutes).
>
>		18:00 CEST (16:00 GMT) – ESA TV update with first Hubble image (black 
>		and white) (approx 20 minutes).
>
>		20:00 CEST (18:00 GMT) – NASA media briefing – live rebroadcast by 			ESA 
>  TV  (approx 30 minutes).
>
>
>5 July		06:00 CEST (04:00 GMT) – ESA TV update with first ESO colour images
>
>
>
>
>The live portion of the ESA TV production and the NASA media briefing 
>(07:15-10:30 CEST) can be watched at various ESA centres and elsewhere in 
>Europe: ESA/ESOC at Darmstadt (Germany), ESA/ESTEC at Noordwijk (the 
>Netherlands), ESA/ESRIN at Frascati (Italy), ESA/ESAC at Villafranca 
>(Spain), La Cité de l’Espace in Toulouse, ESA Headquarters in Paris and Le 
>Parc-aux-Etoiles at Triel-sur-Seine (France), ESO in Garching, Munich and 
>PPARC, London. In most places, experts will be available for interviews.
>
>Media representatives wishing to attend the event at any of the centres are 
>kindly requested to fill in the attached accreditation form and return it 
>to the relevant contact person listed for each venue.
>
>
>(*) ESA Television downlink parameters will be posted at 
>http://television.esa.int, about 72 hours before the event.
>
>For further information and a daily update of the transmission schedule, 
>visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For all TV enquiries, 
>contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail 
>claus.habfast at esa.int.
>
>
>For further information:
>ESA Media Relations Division
>Tel. + 33 1  5369 7155
>Fax. + 33 1 5369 7690
>
>
>ACCREDITATION REQUEST FORM
>Deep Impact: gettin to the heart of a comet with Europe’s contributionMedia 
>events on Monday  4 JulyFirst name: ______________________ Surname: 
>_________________________ Media: 
>________________________________________________________ Address: 
>_______________________________________________________ 
>_______________________________________________________________Tel: 
>_______________________ Fax: _______________________________ Mobile: 
>___________________ E-mail:______________________________  Monday 4 July I 
>will attend the following press briefing (from 07:00 until 10:30 hrs 
>approx): [ ] Germany Location:  ESA/ESOC Robert Bosch Strasse 5, Darmstadt, 
>Germany Contact: Jocelyne Landeau-Constantin Tel: +49(0)6151.90.2696 Fax: 
>+49.(0)6151.90.2961 [ ] GermanyLocation: ESO Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 
>D-85748 Garching bei MünchenContact: Dr Henri Boffin - ESO Press OfficeTel: 
>+49(0)89 3200 6222.Email: hboffin at eso.org[ ] France Location:  La Cité de 
>l’Espace, Avenue Jean Gonord 31500 ToulouseContact: P. Droneau,  
>Tel.:+33(0)5 62 71 56 05E-mail: p.droneau at cite-espace.com[ ] 
>FranceLocation: Parc-aux-Etoiles, 2 rue de la Chapelle, 78510 
>Triel-sur-SeineContact: 33(0)1 39 74 75 10E-mail: 
>parcauxetoiles at wanadoo.fr[ ] FranceLocation: ESA Headquarters, 8-10 rue 
>Mario Nikis, 75015 ParisContact: Anne-Marie RemondinTel.: + 33(0)1 53 69 71 
>55Fax: + 33(0)1 53 69 76 90[ ] The Netherlands Location: ESA/ESTEC, 
>Keplerlaan 1,  Noordwijk, The Netherlands Contact: Michel van Baal Tel.: 
>+31(0)71.565.3008 Fax: +31(0)71.565.5728 [ ] Italy Location: ESA/ESRIN, Via 
>Galileo Galilei, Rome, Italy Contact: Franca Morgia Tel.: +39.06.9418.0951 
>Fax: +39.06.9418.0952 [ ] Spain Location: ESA/ESAC, Apartado 50727, Madrid, 
>Spain Contact: Monica Oerke Tel.: +34(0)91.813.1100 Fax: +34(0)91.8131189 [ 
>] United Kingdom PPARC Media Briefing starting at 06:30 BSTLocation: Church 
>House Conference Centre, LondonContact:  Gill Ormrod - PPARC Press 
>OfficeTel: +44 (0)1793 442012. Mobile: +44(0)781 8013509Email: 
>gill.ormrod at pparc.ac.uk
>
>NASA/JPL contacts:
>Carolina Martinez:- NASA/JPL Media Relations
>Tel: + 1 818 354-9382
>Carolina.Martinez at jpl.nasa.gov
>
>DC Agle - NASA Press Office
>Tel: + 1 818 393 9011
>Email: agle at jpl.nasa.gov
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