NASA Media Teleconference on Planets Beyond Our Solar System

Feb. 16, 2007

Tabatha Thompson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3895

Whitney Clavin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-4673

MEDIA ADVISORY: 07-23

NASA MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON PLANETS BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

PASADENA, Calif. - Astronomers are scheduled to announce new findings
about planets beyond our solar system at a media teleconference
Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 10 a.m. PST. The findings are from NASA's
Spitzer Space Telescope.

Reporters should call the media relations office at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., at 818-354-5011 for
participation information. Audio of the event will be broadcast live
at 1 p.m. on the Web at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

At the start of the briefing, supporting images and graphics will be
posted on the Web at:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/070221/index.html

The briefing participants are:

-- L. Jeremy Richardson, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
-- Carl Grillmair, research astronomer, NASA's Spitzer Science Center
at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Mark Swain, research scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif.
-- Alan Boss, staff research astronomer, Carnegie Institution of
Washington

The Spitzer Space Telescope is part of NASA's Great Observatories
program, which includes the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra
X-ray Observatory.

For more information about the Spitzer Space Telescope, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer

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