Comet Encounter Conference
9 Sep 2010
(Source: NASA)
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Newseum welcome you to the 25th anniversary of the First Comet Encounter by a robotic spacecraft. The feat of the team of America's scientists and engineers that led to the historic encounter with comet Giacobini-Zinner on September 11, 1985, established a foundation of discoveries that continues today.
In the next 6 months, NASA spacecraft will encounter 2 additional comets:
*Hartley-2 on November 4, 2010
*Tempel-1 on February 14, 2011
Did comets bring life's building blocks to Earth? What will we discover next?
Conference Schedule
9 a.m.: Welcome
[[LINK||http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13131||Mr. Joe Urschel]]
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Newseum
[[LINK||http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/contacts/||Mr. Dwayne Brown]]
Master of Ceremonies
NASA
Introduction
Comets: Views Across Time -- New Worlds, New Discoveries
[[LINK||Person:GreenJ||Dr. James L. Green]]
Director, Planetary Science
NASA
9:25 a.m.: Cometary Science: What Have We Learned?
[[LINK||http://www.utexas.edu/opa/experts/profile.php?id=951||]Dr. Anita Cochran]]
Assistant Director, McDonald Observatory
The University of Texas at Austin
10 a.m.: ISEE-3/ICE Anniversary, ICE-2:Teaching An Old Spacecraft New Tricks
[[LINK||http://www.ion.org/awards/tycho2001.cfm||Dr. Robert Farquhar]]
Executive for Space Exploration
KinetX, Inc.
10:40 a.m.: Deep Impact Becomes EPOXI
[[LINK||http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ma/||Dr. Michael A'Hearn]]
Principal Investigator
EPOXI Comet Encounter Mission
University of Maryland
11:15 a.m.: Stardust-NExT To Comet Tempel-1 Comet Encounter
[[LINK||http://www.astro.cornell.edu/people/facstaff-detail.php?pers_id=116||Dr. Joseph Veverka]]
Principal Investigator
Stardust NExT Encounter Mission
Cornell University
11:50 a.m.: Concluding Remarks
Mr. Dwayne Brown
[[LINK||http://www.kinetx.com/company.aspx?p=mgmt#KS||Mr. Kjell Stakkestad]]
President and Chief Executive Officer
KinetX, Inc.
12 p.m.: Luncheon
Knight Conference Center
8th Floor, Newseum
Conference Brochures:
*[[LINK||FILE:Comet Event 09102010 eFlyer final.pdf||Comet Conference Brochure]]
*[[LINK||FILE:NASA Comet Program 091010.pdf||Comet Conference Program]]
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