NASA to Release New Pluto Images, Science Findings at July 17 NASA TV Briefing

NASA to Release New Pluto Images, Science Findings at July 17 NASA TV Briefing

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, July 17, to reveal new images of Pluto and discuss new science findings from Tuesday's historic flyby.

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The briefing will be held in James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E St. SW in Washington. NASA Television and the agency's website will carry the briefing live.

Participants in the briefing will be:


-- Jim Green, director of Planetary Science at NASA Headquarters in
Washington
-- Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator at Southwest Research
Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado
-- Randy Gladstone, New Horizons co-investigator at SwRI in San Antonio
-- Jeffrey Moore, New Horizons co-investigator at NASA's Ames Research
Center in Moffett Field, California
-- Fran Bagenal, New Horizons co-investigator, University of Colorado,
Boulder
Media may participate by phone. To join the briefing by phone, reporters must email their name, affiliation and telephone number to Karen Northon at karen.northon@nasa.gov by noon Friday.

Media and the public also may ask questions during the briefing on Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA.

For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more information on the New Horizons mission, including fact sheets, schedules, video and images, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons

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CONTACT: Dwayne Brown or Laurie Cantillo of NASA Headquarters, Washington, 202-358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, or 202-358-1077, laurie.cantillo@nasa.gov; Or Mike BuckleyJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., 240-228-7536, michael.buckley@jhuapl.edu

Web Site: http://www.nasa.gov


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