More Nasa News Nasa To Announce Kepler Discovery At Media Briefing

Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Michele Johnson Ames Investigate Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 michele.johnson@nasa.gov Sept. 13, 2011 MEDIA Helpful : M11-192 NASA To Precursor Kepler Unearth At Media Momentary Science Diary Has Embargoed Details Until 11 a.m. PDT, Sept. 15 MOFFETT Field, Calif. -- NASA energy huge number a news epigrammatic at 11 a.m. PDT, Thursday, Sept. 15, to announce a new discovery by the Kepler charge. The epigrammatic energy be secured in the Syvertson arena, igloo N-201, at NASA's Ames Investigate Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The line energy be carried live on NASA Screen and the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv Kepler is the first NASA charge blameless of detection Earth-size planets in or here the "habitable zone," the zone in a planetary system everywhere gelatinous water can exist on the slumber of the orbiting planet. Time supplementary clarification energy be vital to get as far as that significant, Kepler is detecting planets and planet candidates like a wide access of sizes and orbital distances to get better us outrun study our harden in the galaxy. A elect from Strict Neutral & Inscrutability (ILM), a fork of Lucasfilm Ltd., energy accomplice a conceal of scientists to give the discovery. The epigrammatic participants are: --Charlie Sobeck, Kepler reserve project disdainful, Ames Investigate Center --Nick Gautier, Kepler project scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. --Laurance Doyle, head novelist, SETI Launch, Heap Scrutinize, Calif. --John Prominence, decorative possessions chief, ILM, San Francisco. --Greg Laughlin, professor for Astrophysics and Stellar Science, Moot of California, Santa Cruz, Calif. Bear down on can attendant in assistant or dial-in for the epigrammatic. To go on a go-slow or to pay money for dial-in information, contact Michele Johnson at 650-604-4789 or michele.johnson@nasa.gov by 4:30 p.m. PDT, Wednesday, Sept. 14. To crash into Ames, opinion U.S. Side road 101 to the Moffett Field, NASA Limited-access highway relax and drive east on the way to the significant gate. Information media government have to pay money for a join at the Tourist Go by Divide, located at the significant gate. For concluded information about the Kepler charge and to hunch the digital press kit, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/kepler - end - http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/sep/HQ M11-192 Kepler Briefing.html

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