NASA Hosts Media Briefing To Discuss Kepler Results

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Oct 31, 2013, 03:02 ET

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will video stream a news briefing at 10:15 a.m. PST (1:15 p.m. EST) Monday, Nov. 4, to announce new results from the agency's Kepler mission. The briefing, taking place during the Kepler Science Conference, will be in building 152 at NASA Research Park in Moffett Field, Calif.

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With its 2009 launch, Kepler became the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-sized planets in or near the habitable zone -- the region around a star in which orbiting planets may have surface temperatures that would sustain liquid water. In its last four years of exploration, the Kepler space telescope has detected planets and planet candidates, varying widely in size and orbital distances, helping us better understand our place in the universe.

The briefing participants are:

William Borucki, Kepler science principal investigator, Ames
Jason Rowe, research scientist, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.
Erik Petigura, graduate student, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
William Chaplin, professor for Astrophysics, University of Birmingham, UK

Media may attend in person or by teleconference. To register or obtain dial-in information, contact Michele Johnson at 650-604-6982 or [email protected] by 8 a.m. PST Monday.

Media and the public may submit questions via Twitter using #AskNASA.

The event will be streamed live at:

http://connect.arc.nasa.gov/kepler

For more information about the Kepler mission and to view the digital press kit, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/kepler

SOURCE NASA