[FPSPACE] FW: NASA: Mercury Flyby Results Briefing, 29 October at 1:00 PM EDT

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>From: "AAS Press Officer Dr. Steve Maran" <steve.maran at aas.org>
>To: "Steve Maran" <steve.maran at aas.org>
>Subject: NASA: Mercury Flyby Results Briefing, 29 October at 1:00 PM EDT
>Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:04:01 -0400
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Oct. 24, 2008    MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-216

Contact:
Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
1-202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov

NASA TO RELEASE SCIENCE RESULTS, IMAGES FROM SECOND MERCURY FLYBY

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT on
Wednesday, Oct. 29, to announce findings and release new images from
the Oct. 6 flyby of Mercury by a NASA spacecraft. The briefing will
take place in the television studio at NASA Headquarters, located at
300 E Street, S.W., in Washington. It will be carried live on NASA
Television.

This second of three planned flybys by the MErcury Surface, Space
ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft, or MESSENGER,
photographed most of Mercury's remaining unseen surface. The
spacecraft passed 125 miles above the planet's cratered surface,
taking more than 1,200 pictures and collecting a variety of data. The
flyby provided a critical gravity assist needed for the probe to
become, in March 2011, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.

Participants will be:
- Marilyn Lindstrom, program scientist at NASA Headquarters in
Washington
- Brian Anderson, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Ronald Vervack, Jr., participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Maria Zuber, co-investigator and head of the Department of Earth,
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
- Mark Robinson, co-investigator and professor at Arizona State
University School of Earth and Space Exploration

Reporters may ask questions from participating NASA locations.
Reporters also may listen or ask questions by phone. To reserve a
phone line, contact Steve Cole on 202-358-0918. For information about
NASA TV, streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/messenger
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