NASA Hosts Teleconference Today to Discuss Asteroid Research

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Nov 06, 2013, 01:34 ET

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EST (12:30 p.m. PST) today to discuss research findings from the February Chelyabinsk meteor incident and update the agency's progress in searching, detecting, tracking and characterizing near-Earth objects (NEOs).

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Briefing participants are:

Lindley Johnson, NEO program executive, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington
Peter Jenniskens, co-author of a Chelyabinsk-related research paper, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.
Bill Cooke, Meteoroid Environment Office lead, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
Paul Chodas, research scientist, NEO Program Office, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Media interested in participating in the teleconference should call 800-475-0449 15 minutes before the teleconference begins. International media should call 517-308-9230. The passcode is "meteor."

Live audio of the teleconference will be streamed at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

Audio replays of the teleconference will be available until Nov. 13 by calling toll free at 888-446-2545 International media should call 402-998-1344.

SOURCE NASA