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From: Ron Baalke <baalke@zagami.jpl.nasadot gov>
Subject: Comet Results Briefing Set For September 25
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:00:26 -0700 (PDT)


Dolores Beasley
Headquarters, Washington                              Sept. 24, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Martha J. Heil
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 818/354-0850)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N01-50

Comet Results briefing set for Tuesday

Pictures and other scientific data from last weekend's flyby of 
comet Borrelly by NASA's Deep Space 1 spacecraft will be unveiled at 
a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 25, originating from 
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.

The participants will be:
* Dr. Tom Morgan, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters, 
  Washington;
* Dr. Marc Rayman, JPL, Deep Space 1 project manager;
* Dr. Robert Nelson, JPL, Deep Space 1 project scientist;
* Dr. Larry Soderblom, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Ariz., 
  Deep Space 1 imaging team lead;
* Dr. David Young, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Deep Space 1 
  space physics team lead;
* Dr. Donald Yeomans, JPL, manager of NASA's Near Earth Objects 
  program office.

The news conference will be carried on NASA Television on the GE-2 
satellite, transponder 9C, at 85 degrees west longitude, vertical 
polarization, frequency 3880.0 megahertz, audio 6.8 megahertz.

Los Angeles area news media may attend the briefing at JPL's von 
Karman Auditorium, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena. Due to heightened 
security measures in place at other NASA Centers, media 
representatives outside of Los Angeles can participate in tomorrow's 
briefing by calling 818/354-6666.

Saturday's flyby of comet Borrelly was icing on the cake for Deep 
Space 1, which completed its primary mission of flight-testing an 
ion engine and 11 other advanced technologies two years ago. The 
encounter is only the second time that spacecraft have flown past 
and taken pictures of a comet.

Deep Space 1 was launched in October 1998 as part of NASA's New 
Millennium Program, which is managed by JPL for NASA's Office of 
Space Science. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena 
manages JPL for NASA.

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