Sept. 28, 2006

Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1237/1726

Susan Hendrix
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-7745

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-153

NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS EXTRASOLAR PLANETS ACROSS OUR GALAXY

NASA is hosting a science update at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 4, to 
discuss a Hubble Space Telescope discovery of extrasolar planet 
candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars. The update will be in 
the NASA auditorium, 300 E Street S.W., Washington. 

Panelists:
-- Jennifer Wiseman, Hubble program scientist, NASA Headquarters
-- Kailash Sahu, principal investigator, and Mario Livio, 
co-investigator, Hubble Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar 
Planet Search project, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 
-- Alan Boss, Carnegie Institution of Washington

The conference will air live on NASA TV with question and answer 
capability from participating agency centers. For NASA TV streaming 
video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/home

	
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