October 31, 2003

Nancy Neal
Headquarters, Washington 
(Phone: 202/358-1547)

Carolina Carnalla-Martinez
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 818/354-9382)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-111

NEXT SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE FEATURES DISTANT VOYAGER DISCOVERY

New observations from Voyager 1 indicate the spacecraft is approaching 
a formerly unexplored region at the very edge of our solar system. 
These observations and what they may infer are the subjects of the 
next NASA Space Science Update (SSU) on November 5, 2003, at 1:00 
p.m. EST. 

The SSU will be in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 
300 E Street SW, Washington. NASA TV will carry the SSU live with 
two-way question-and-answer capability for reporters covering the 
event from participating agency centers.

Panelists for the SSU:

Dr. Stamatios M. "Tom" Krimigis, head of space department, The Johns 
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.
Dr. Frank McDonald, senior research scientist, University of Maryland, 
College Park, Md.
Dr. Merav Opher, research scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
Pasadena, Calif.
Dr. Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist, California Institute of 
Technology, Pasadena.
Dr. Eric Christian, discipline scientist, Sun-Earth Connection 
division, NASA Headquarters.

NASA Television is available on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-Band, located 
at 85 degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. 
Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. For 
information about NASA TV on the Internet, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html 

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov 

	
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