From sirtf@ipac.caltech.edu Tue Dec 16 15:30:21 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:16:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: SIRTF: SIRTF Press Conference on Dec. 18th

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1) Announcement of SIRTF Press Conference on Dec. 18th
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(our big documentation update will be Friday the 19th; we'll
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> From NASANews@hq.nasa.gov Tue Dec 16 13:48:33 2003
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:20:11 -0500 (EST)
> From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov
> To: undisclosed-recipients:  ;
> Subject: NASA ANNOUNCES NEW NAME, NEW PICTURES FOR SPACE TELESCOPE
>
> Donald Savage
> Headquarters, Washington                December 15, 2003
> (Phone: 202/358-1727)
>
> Jane Platt
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> (Phone: 818/354-0880)
>
> NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-140
>
> NASA ANNOUNCES NEW NAME, NEW PICTURES FOR SPACE TELESCOPE
>
>      The first colorful and revealing cosmic images from
> NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) will be
> unveiled at a news conference Thursday, Dec. 18. NASA
> Administrator Sean O'Keefe will also announce a new name for
> the observatory.
>
> The event begins at 1 p.m. EST in NASA's James Webb
> Auditorium, 300 E St. S.W., Washington. At 1:30 p.m. EST, new
> images from the orbiting observatory will be released at a
> press briefing featuring a panel whose members will discuss
> the telescope's early observations. Both events will be
> carried live on NASA Television, with two-way question-and-
> answer capability from participating NASA centers.
>
> SIRTF, launched August 25, 2003, from Cape Canaveral, Fla.,
> uses state-of-the-art infrared detectors to pierce the dusty
> darkness enshrouding such celestial objects as galaxies,
> stars and planet-forming discs around stars. It is the fourth
> of NASA's Great Observatories, which include the Hubble Space
> Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray
> Observatory.
>
> The new name for the mission was selected after a naming
> contest that drew 7,000 entries from around the world.
>
> Participants in the 1 p.m. naming event:
>
> - Sean O'Keefe, NASA Administrator
> - Dr. Edward Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space
> Science
> - Dr. Michael Werner, project scientist, Jet Propulsion
> Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> - Dr. John Norris Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study,
> Princeton, N.J.
> - Dr. Giovanni Fazio, principal investigator for the
> infrared-array camera science instrument, Harvard-Smithsonian
> Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
> - Dr. James Houck, principal investigator for the infrared-
> spectrograph science instrument, Cornell University, Ithaca,
> N.Y.
> - Dr. George Rieke, principal investigator for the multiband-
> imaging photometer science instrument, University of Arizona,
> Tucson, Ariz.
>
> NASA Television is available on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-
> Band, located at 85 degrees west longitude. The frequency is
> 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural
> at 6.80 MHz. Reporters who would like to listen to events'
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>
> The briefing will be webcast live and archived for later
> viewing at:
>
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/sirtf/dec03.cfm
>
> For more information about SIRTF on the Internet, visit:
>
> http://sirtf.caltech.edu/
>
> SIRTF is part of NASA's Origins program, which seeks to
> answer the questions: Where did we come from? Are we alone?
> NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages
> the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington.
> Science operations are conducted at the SIRTF Science Center
> at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
>
> For more information about NASA on the Internet, visit:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov
>
> -end-
>
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