NASA to Reveal Data Showing a New View of Our Galaxy

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WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a NASA Science Update at 2:15 p.m. EDT on
Thursday, Oct. 15, to discuss new science data of our galaxy obtained
from the agency's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX,
spacecraft. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide
live coverage of the briefing from the James E. Webb Memorial
Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, in Washington.

The briefing participants are:
- David McComas, IBEX spacecraft principal investigator and senior
executive director, Space Science and Engineering Division, Southwest
Research Institute in San Antonio
- Eric Christian, IBEX deputy mission scientist, NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
- Rosine Lallement, senior scientist at the French National Center for
Scientific Research in Paris
- Lindsay Bartolone, lead of Education and Public Outreach at the
Adler Planetarium in Chicago
- Don Mitchell, Cassini spacecraft instrument scientist, IBEX
co-Investigator, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
in Laurel, Md.

Reporters unable to attend the briefing may ask questions by
telephone. To reserve a telephone line, journalists should e-mail
their name, media affiliation and telephone number to Sonja Alexander
at:

sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov

For more information about NASA TV schedules, downlinks and streaming
video, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv