New Time for NASA Science Update to Discuss New Horizons Data

April 30, 2007

Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson
Headquarters, Washington
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Michael Buckley
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.
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NEW TIME FOR NASA SCIENCE UPDATE TO DISCUSS NEW HORIZONS DATA

WASHINGTON - A NASA Science Update to discuss new views of the Jupiter
system has moved to 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 1.

The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft is returning these images as
it flies past the solar system's largest planet during the initial
stages of a planned six-month encounter. The update will take place
in the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 at 300 E
St., S.W., Washington. The update will air live on NASA Television
and be streamed at www.nasa.gov.

New Horizons is using Jupiter's gravity to boost its speed toward the
outer solar system while training its cameras and sensors on the
giant planet and its moons.

Briefing participants are:
-- Alan Stern, NASA associate administrator, Science Mission
Directorate, and New Horizons principal investigator, Headquarters,
Washington
-- Jeff Moore, New Horizons Jupiter Encounter Science Team lead, Ames
Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
-- John Spencer, New Horizons Jupiter Encounter Science Team deputy
lead, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo.
-- Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist, Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.

Reporters at participating NASA centers will be able to ask questions.
For more information about NASA TV, streaming video, downlink and
schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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