NASA Holds Teleconference on Intriguing Rocket Experiment Results

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Nov 04, 2014, 01:23 ET

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 6, to announce discoveries from a sub-orbital rocket experiment that are redefining what we think of as galaxies.

The results are embargoed by the journal Science until 2:00 p.m. Nov. 6.

The briefing participants are:

Michael Garcia, program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington
James Bock, astronomer, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Michael Zemcov, astronomer, Caltech and JPL
Karoline Gilbert, assistant astronomer, Space Telescope Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to Felicia Chou at [email protected] by noon on Thursday.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

Visuals will be posted at the start of the event at:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/

For more information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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