Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington                     Nov. 21, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-1547)

Nancy Neal
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-0039)

Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
(Phone: 410/338-4514)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N01-71

NEXT SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE NOV. 27 PRESENTS 
HUBBLE DISCOVERY ABOUT EXTRASOLAR PLANET

     A major discovery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope 
about a planet outside our Solar System will be announced in 
a Space Science Update at 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 27, in the 
James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, 
Washington. The discovery marks an important new capability 
in efforts to uncover secrets about these newly discovered 
extrasolar planets.

Panelists will be:

*  Dr. David Charbonneau, Millikan Postdoctoctoral Scholar in 
Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 
in Pasadena;
*  Dr. Timothy Brown, senior scientist at the High Altitude 
Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research 
in Boulder, Colo.;
*  Dr. Alan P. Boss, staff member at the Carnegie Institution 
of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism;
*  Dr. Bruce Margon, associate director for science at the 
Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore;
*  Dr. Anne Kinney, panel moderator and director of the 
Astronomy and Physics Division in the Office of Space Science 
at NASA Headquarters.

The briefing will be carried live on NASA TV with two-way 
question-and-answer capability for reporters covering the 
event from participating NASA centers.

NASA Television is broadcast on the GE-2 satellite, 
Transponder 9C, at 85 degrees West longitude, with vertical 
polarization, frequency 3880.0 MHz, audio 6.8 MHz. Audio of 
the broadcast will be available on voice circuit at NASA's 
Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on 407/867-1220, -1240 and -1260.

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