NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery

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April 15, 2014 NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 17, to announce a new discovery made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope. The journal Science has embargoed the findings until the time of the news conference. The briefing participants are: -- Douglas Hudgins, exoplanet exploration program scientist, NASA's Astrophysics Division in Washington -- Elisa Quintana, research scientist, SETI Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. -- Tom Barclay, research scientist, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at Ames -- Victoria Meadows, professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle, and principal investigator for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory, a team in the NASA Astrobiology Institute at Ames Launched in March 2009, Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone -- the range of distance from a star in which the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might sustain liquid water. The telescope has since detected planets and planet candidates spanning a wide range of sizes and orbital distances, including those in the habitable zone. These findings have led to a better understanding of our place in the galaxy. For dial-in information, media should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to J.D. Harrington at j.d.harrington@xxxxxxxx no later than noon Thursday. The public is invited to listen to the teleconference live on UStream at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-arc Audio of the teleconference also will be streamed live at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio Questions can be submitted on Twitter using the hashtag #AskNASA. A link to relevant graphics will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's Kepler site: http://www.nasa.gov/kepler -end-   J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@xxxxxxxx Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-6982 michele.johnson@xxxxxxxx   NASA news releases and other information are available automatically by sending an e-mail message with the subject line subscribe to hqnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe from the list, send an e-mail message with the subject line unsubscribe to hqnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.     › Back To Top