http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-057  

Watching Space Rocks: Live Chat With NASA's Asteroid Trackers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 23, 2009

A live videocast and chat from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif., offers a unique opportunity for viewers to ask
questions of scientists with NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office
about how NASA discovers and tracks asteroids.

The live event will air on the "NASAJPL" channel available on Ustream TV
at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl on March 25 at 4:30 p.m. PDT
(7:30 p.m. EDT and 23:30 UTC).

NASA detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth. The
Near-Earth Object Observation Program, commonly called "Spaceguard,"
discovers, characterizes and computes trajectories for these objects to
determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.

Participants include:

-- Don Yeomans, manager, NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at JPL
-- Steve Chesley, scientist, NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at JPL
-- Paul Chodas, scientist, NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at JPL

If you are unable to take part in the live chat, you can submit
questions in advance to chatquest...@jpl.nasa.gov and watch the archived
video at a later time.

More information about NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office is
available at: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by the California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for
NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Media contact: DC Agle 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
a...@jpl.nasa.gov

2009-057

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