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- 7/14/94: REVISED MEDIA BRIEFING SCHEDULE FOR COMET SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9
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- Donald Savage
- Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
- July 14, 1994
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- Michael Finneran
- Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
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- Lynn Simarski
- National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va.
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- Ray Villard
- Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
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- NOTE TO EDITORS: N94-51
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- The first briefing on the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter
- will begin on Saturday, July 16, at 7:30 p.m. EDT at the Space Telescope
- Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, Md. Coverage will feature Eugene and
- Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy, co-discoverers of the comet.
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- The first fragment of the comet, which is one of the smallest and
- dimmest of the 21 fragments, will impact Jupiter just before 4 p.m. EDT, July
- 16, on the side of Jupiter facing away from Earth. Shortly afterwards, the
- point of impact will rotate into view as seen from Earth, and the Hubble Space
- Telescope (HST) will image the impact area. The data will be downlinked around
- 7:30 p.m. EDT.
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- A press briefing will be held at 10 p.m. EDT at STScI during which
- scientists will discuss the first image of the impact area. The entire
- Saturday program beginning at 7:30 p.m. EDT, and all scheduled briefings
- through July 22, will be broadcast live on NASA Television with two-way
- question- and-answer capability for reporters covering the briefings from
- participating NASA centers.
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- In addition to the GSFC Comet Impact newsroom, which will be open 24
- hours a day from July 16-22 for briefing coverage, the other participating NASA
- centers are Headquarters in Washington, D.C.; the Kennedy Space Center, Fla.;
- the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., and the Jet Propulsion
- Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, will be
- open for TV viewing only on Saturday, and will begin complete coverage,
- including two-way Q&A capability for reporters, with Sunday morning's 10 a.m.
- EDT briefing.
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- On Sunday morning, July 17, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, a press briefing will
- be held at GSFC. The briefing will include more information on the initial
- fragment (fragment 'A') as well as available information from HST and other
- observatories which observed fragments B, C and D. Panelists will include
- Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker, David Levy and other science team members.
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- The complete schedule of briefings is listed below. (* Denotes change
- from previous schedule.)
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- JULY DATE TIME (EDT) EVENT/LOCATION
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- Sat. 16 7:30 p.m. * Briefing: Observing Campaign Begins
- Panelists: Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker
- and David Levy
- Location: Space Telescope Science Inst.
- Sat. 16 10:00 p.m. Press Briefing: First Impact Image Release
- Location: Space Telescope Science Inst.
- Sun. 17 10:00 a.m. * Press Briefing at GSFC
- Mon. 18 8:00 a.m. Press Briefing at GSFC
- Tue. 19 8:00 a.m. Press Briefing at GSFC
- Wed. 20 12:00 noon Press Briefing at GSFC
- Thur. 21 8:00 a.m. Press Briefing at GSFC
- Fri. 22 9:30 a.m. Press Briefing at GSFC (Subject to change as
- STS-65 landing events warrant)
- Sat. 23 8:00 a.m. Press Briefing at GSFC
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- The Goddard Comet Impact newsroom will be the central location
- providing coverage of observations and images from the worldwide network of
- ground-based observatories and spacecraft taking part in the NASA/National
- Science Foundation observing project. Scientists will be on hand at the
- newsroom to answer questions, or interviews can be arranged as needed. Press
- materials, artwork and video relating to the event will be available to media.
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- NASA TV is carried on Spacenet 2, transponder 5, channel 9, 69 degrees
- West. The transponder frequency is 3880 MHz, the audio is 6.8 MHz, and
- polarization is horizontal.
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- Electronic Distribution of Materials
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- Current HST and other observatory images and information are available
- through the Internet and NASA's Spacelink. As new information and images become
- available, they will be posted to these services:
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- Spacelink: Internet access at: spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov.
- To access Spacelink using a modem, direct dial 205/895-0028.
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- Internet: To access using World Wide Web (WWW), the Uniform Resource
- Locator (URL) address for Jet Propulsion
- Laboratory's WWW Shoemaker-Levy home page is:
- http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/sl9.html
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- The WWW server contains NASA press releases, current impact and press
- event schedules, current HST and other spacecraft and ground-based observatory
- comet images, and information on spacecraft and ground-based observing
- programs.
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