DC Agle 818-393-9011 INTERNET ADVISORY: 2009-057 March 23, 2009 Watching Space Rocks: Live Chat With NASA's Asteroid Trackers A live videocast and chat from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., offers a unique opportunity for viewers to ask questions of scientists with NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office about how NASA discovers and tracks asteroids. The live event will air on the "NASAJPL" channel available on Ustream TV at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl on March 25 at 4:30 p.m. PDT (7:30 p.m. EDT and 23:30 UTC). NASA detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth. The Near-Earth Object Observation Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers, characterizes and computes trajectories for these objects to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet. Participants include:
If you are unable to take part in the live chat, you can submit questions in advance to chatquestion@xxxxxxxxxxxx and watch the archived video at a later time. More information about NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office is available at: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. -end-
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