NASA Reschedules Teleconference On IBEX Spacecraft Findings

Dwayne Brown

Headquarters, Washington

WASHINGTON -- NASA has rescheduled the media teleconference to discuss new information about the boundary of our solar system obtained from the agency's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft. The telecon now is set for noon EDT, on Thursday, Sept. 30.

The briefing participants are:

- Arik Posner, IBEX program scientist, Heliophysics Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington

- Nathan Schwadron, IBEX science operations lead and associate professor at the University of New Hampshire in Durham

- David McComas, IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice president of the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio

- Merav Opher, associate professor, George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

To participate in the teleconference, reporters should e-mail JD Harrington at j.d.harrington@nasa.gov.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio.

At the beginning of the briefing, related images will be available online at http://www.nasa.gov/ibex.

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