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SETI FEB. 9 UPDATE FEATURES HUBBLE'S BEST LOOK AT PLANETARY BIRTH
Larry Klaes ( lklaes@bbn.com )
Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:00:37 -0500
>Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:30:12 -0500 (EST)
>From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov
>Subject: FEB. 9 UPDATE FEATURES HUBBLE'S BEST LOOK AT PLANETARY BIRTH
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>Don Savage
>Headquarters, Washington, DC February 5, 1999
>(Phone: 202/358-1547)
>
>Nancy Neal
>Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
>(Phone: 301/286-0039)
>
>Ray Villard
>Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
>(Phone: 410/338-4514)
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>NOTE TO EDITORS: N99-7
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>FEB. 9 UPDATE FEATURES HUBBLE'S BEST LOOK AT PLANETARY BIRTH
>
> Dramatic new Hubble Space Telescope images of eerie edge-on
>disks of dust encircling young stars -- believed to be the early
>formative stages of planetary systems -- will be the topic of the
>next Space Science Update (SSU) at 1 p.m. EST, February 9, 1999.
>
> The SSU, entitled "Dusty Disks, the Builders of Worlds," will
>be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St. SW,
>Washington, DC, and will be broadcast live on NASA Television, with
>two-way question-and-answer capability for reporters covering the
>event from participating NASA centers. The panelists will discuss
>the latest findings and the clearest views to date of planetary
>construction zones.
>
>The panelists are:
>
>* Deborah Padgett, Staff Scientist, Infrared Processing and
>Analysis Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, Pasadena,
>CA
>* Karl Stapelfeldt, Astronomer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
>Pasadena, CA
>* Glenn Schneider, NICMOS Project Instrument Scientist, University
>of Arizona, Steward Observatory, Tucson, AZ
>* Steven Beckwith, Director, Space Telescope Science Institute,
>Baltimore, MD
>* Dave Leckrone, Senior Project Scientist for HST, NASA Goddard
>Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, panel moderator.
>
> NASA Television is broadcast on the GE2 satellite which is
>located on Transponder 9C, at 85 degrees West longitude, vertical
>polarization, frequency 3880.0 Mhz, audio 6.8 MHz. Audio of the
>broadcast will be available on voice circuit at the Kennedy Space
>Center on 407/867-1220, -1240 or -1260.
>
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