NASA to Highlight Comet NEOWISE with Public Broadcast Wed 7/15 @ 2PM CDT and 3 PM CDT

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NASA to Highlight Comet NEOWISE with Public Broadcast Wed 7/15 @ 2PM CDT and 3 PM CDT

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From the NASA website:

"NASA to Highlight Comet NEOWISE with Public Broadcast, Media Teleconference

NASA experts will discuss and answer public questions about Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE during a broadcast of NASA Science Live and follow up media teleconference on Wednesday, July 15. The comet is visible with the naked-eye in the early morning sky and starting this week, after sunset.

The NASA Science Live episode will air live at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday on NASA Television and the agency's website, along with Facebook Live, YouTube, Periscope, LinkedIn, Twitch, and USTREAM.

Viewers can submit questions on Twitter using the hashtag #AskNASA or by leaving a comment in the chat section of Facebook, Periscope, or YouTube.

NASA will follow the broadcast with a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday. The media teleconference audio will stream live at:

https://www.nasa.gov/live

The teleconference participants include:

Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer and program executive of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, NASA Headquarters
Emily Kramer, co-investigator on the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) science team, NASA JPL
Amy Mainzer, NEOWISE principal investigator, University of Arizona

To participate in the teleconference, media must email their name and affiliation to joshua.a.handal@nasa.gov by 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, July 15."

Mark
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