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Topic Name: NASA Scientist Available for Interviews About New Jupiter Findings
Category: STAR (Space, Telecommunications & Radioscience)
Research persons: Dr. J. Jeffrey Moore
Location: 2751 De Barr Road Suite 290, Anchorage, Alaska 99520, United States
Details
NASA scientist will be available to reporters Tuesday, Oct. 9,
to discuss Jupiter findings to be published Friday, Oct. 12, in the journal
Science.
What NASA's
Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft found when it flew by Jupiter on Feb.
28, 2007, stunned scientists who now are releasing more information in nine
journal articles in Science.
WHAT: Opportunity to conduct interviews about newly revealed
Jupiter observations gathered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PDT Oct. 9, 2007.
WHO: Jeff Moore, New Horizons Jupiter Encounter science team
lead from NASA Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field, Calif. Moore also is co-author of several the technical articles
to appear in the journal, Science.
WHERE: NASA Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field, Calif. To reach Ames, take U.S. Highway 101 to the
Moffett Field, NASA Parkway exit and drive east on Moffett Blvd. to the main
gate. Reporters who are U.S. citizens will be directed to park near the gate and
asked to present government issued photo ID such as a drivers' license in order
to enter Ames' grounds. After signing in, reporters will be given directions to
Moore's office.
BACKGROUND: New Horizons came within 1.4 million miles of
Jupiter on Feb. 28, using the planet's gravity to trim three years from the
spacecraft's travel time to Pluto. For several weeks before and after this
closest approach, the piano-sized robotic probe trained its seven cameras and
sensors on Jupiter and its four largest moons, storing data from nearly 700
observations on digital recorders and gradually sending that information back to
Earth.
The flyby added 9,000 miles per hour to the spacecraft's speed,
pushing New Horizons past 50,000 miles per hour and setting up a flight near
Pluto in July 2015.
The number of observations at Jupiter was twice that of those
planned for Pluto. New Horizons made most of the observations of Jupiter during
the spacecraft's closest approach to the planet. More than 40,000 separate
commands from the onboard computer guided the spacecraft.
New Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers
Program of medium-class spacecraft exploration projects.
About Researhcer:
Dr. J. Jeffrey Moore is a
principal engineer at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, TX. His
professional experience includes engineering and management responsibilities at
Dresser-Rand in Olean, NY and Solar Turbines Inc. in San Diego, CA. His
interests include rotordynamics, seals and bearings, finite element analysis,
and aerodynamics.
He has authored over ten technical papers in the
area of rotordynamics and aerodynamics and has given numerous tutorials and
lectures. He holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) from Texas
A&M University.
Address:
2751 De Barr Road Suite 290,
Anchorage, Alaska (AK) 99520
About New Horizons spacecraft
New Horizons is a robotic spacecraft mission
conducted by NASA. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study
the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, and Hydra. NASA may also
approve flybys of one or more other Kuiper Belt Objects.
New Horizons was successfully launched on January 19, 2006. After a flyby of
Jupiter on 28 February, 2007 at 5:43:40 UTC, it is expected to arrive at Pluto
in July 2015 before becoming the fifth spacecraft to leave the Solar System.
The New Horizons spacecraft was launched directly into an Earth- and
solar-escape trajectory. It had an Earth-relative velocity of about 16.21 km/s
(36,260 mph) just after its last engine shut down, making it the fastest
spacecraft launch to date.
Related Online Resources:
http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/022807.htm
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/news/jupiter_system.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Pluto/PlutoNewHorizons.html
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
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