Need a Break From Budget News? Watch A Comet Encounter on Monday
NASA cleverly designed the Stardust-NExT mission to have its encounter with comet Tempel 1 on Valentine’s Day, but that was when the President’s budget request for FY2012 was to be released a week earlier. Now, the two coincide. For those on the East Coast who are still awake near midnight on Monday and need relief from analyzing the budget request, the Tempel 1 encounter will be televised on NASA TV beginning at 8:37 pm PST (11:37 pm EST).
A press conference will be held the next day at 10:00 am PST (1:00 pm EST) at which Science Mission Directorate head Ed Weiler and three Stardust-NExT scientists — Joe Veverka of Cornell, Tim Larson of JPL, and Don Brownlee of the University of Washington-Seattle — will speak.
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