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>
> Kathleen Burton April 9, 1999
> NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
> (Phone: 650/604-1731)
> kburton@mail.arc.nasadot gov
>
> RELEASE: 99-20
>
> NOTE TO EDITORS AND NEWS DIRECTORS: News media are invited to cover a news
> briefing on Monday, April 12 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. PST in the Ballroom of
> Bldg. 3, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. To get to Ames,
> take the Moffett Field exit from Highway 101, and drive east to the Moffett
> Federal Airfield main gate. Stop by the Visitor Badging Office to obtain a
> visitor pass to gain entry.
>
> SCIENTISTS TO REPORT FINDINGS FROM 1998 LEONID METEOR SHOWER
>
> Scientists will present their initial science results from the 1998
> Leonid meteor shower at a press briefing to be held from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00
> p.m. on Monday, April 12, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
> Topics will include:
> … the role of meteoric matter in the origin of life,
> … the strength of the Leonid Meteor Shower and predictions for 1999,
> … the first detection of molecules,
> … iron atom debris, and
> … heat measured from the meteors.
>
> Reporters will be able to view the first images of meteor contrails
> probed by powerful lasers during 1998's Leonid airborne campaign.
> Researchers will also discuss observation plans for the upcoming Leonid
> Meteor Shower in November 1999. The next Leonid storm is not due for 100
> years.
>
> The November 17, 1998, Leonid meteor shower was the most intense
> display of meteors since the much-heralded storm of 1966. NASA Ames
> Research Center launched an airborne multi-national observing campaign that
> probed the meteors with a range of techniques. This was NASA's first
> Astrobiology mission, with the goal of studying the chemistry and physics
> of
> extraterrestrial matter falling into Earth's atmosphere.
>
> Panelists for the science results update will include:
> … Dr. Peter Jenniskens, Leonids Principal Investigator, the SETI Institute,
> Mountain View, CA,
> … Lynn Harper, Co-Lead, Astrobiology Advanced Missions and Technologies,
> NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA,
>
> -more-
>
> -2-
>
> … Dr. Chester S. Gardner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL,
> … Dr. Ray Russell, Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA,
> … Dr. Joe Kristl, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscomb AFB, MA, and
> … Dr. Hajime Yano, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX.
>
> Reporters are welcome to attend workshop sessions on Monday and Tuesday
> from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., a poster session on Monday from 5:00 p.m. to
> 8:00 p.m., and a discussion of 1999's mission on Wednesday from 9:00 a.m.
> to 4:00 p.m.
>
> Keynote speakers are scheduled on Monday from 11 a.m. to noon and
> from 2:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., and on Tuesday from 10:50 a.m. to noon and
> from 3:50 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Further information can be obtained at:
>
> http://leonid.arc.nasadot gov/HTML/workshop.html (Full Story)
> http://leonid.arc.nasadot gov/workshops/ (The Leonid Workshop Agenda)
> http://leonid.arc.nasadot gov/ (The 1999 Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft
> Campaign)
> http://leonids.arc.nasadot gov (The 1998 Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft
> Campaign)
>
> -end-
>
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