NASA Announces Media Teleconference to Explain Missing Sunspots
WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 3, to discuss the first computer model that explains the recent period of decreased solar activity during the sun's 11-year cycle. The recent solar minimum, a period characterized by a lower frequency of sunspots and solar storms, ended in 2008 and was the deepest observed in almost 100 years.The teleconference panelists are:
-- Richard Fisher, director, Heliophysics Division, Science Mission
Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Dibyendu Nandi, assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research, Kolkata, India
-- Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, visiting research fellow,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
-- Delores Knipp, visiting scientist, University of Colorado at Boulder
To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact Trent
Perrotto at 202-358-0321 or trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov by 10 a.m. EST
on March 3 for dial-in instructions. Requests must include media
affiliation and telephone number.
Supporting information for the briefing will be posted at:
http://www.nasa.gov/sunearth
Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on the Web at:
http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
Source: NASA
