TOWARD OTHER EARTHS
DARWIN / TPF AND THESEARCH FOR
EXTRASOLAR
TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
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TOWARD OTHER EARTHSDARWIN / TPF AND THESEARCH FOR EXTRASOLAR TERRESTRIAL PLANETS |
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| HEIDELBERG, GERMANY 22-25 APRIL 2003 | ||
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Press Conference on April 23, 2003 | |
| A press conference will be held on Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 10:00-11:00 am, in the conference centre ("Stadthalle"). The following experts will inform on the scientific goals and technical aspects of the DARWIN and TPF missions: | ||
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Steven Beckwith
(Baltimore, USA) |
is Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope and prepares its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. | |
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Charles Beichman
(Pasadena, USA) |
leads the
"Terrestrial Planet Finder"
mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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Malcolm Fridlund
(ESTEC, Noordwijk) |
is project scientist for the "DARWIN" mission at ESA. | |
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Thomas Henning
(Heidelberg) |
is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, where he leads the research on Star and Planet Formation. | |
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Michel G.E. Mayor
(Geneva) |
is Director of the Geneva Observatory and a pioneer of the research on extrasolar planets. In 1995, he discovered the first extrasolar planet, the famous object 51 Peg b. |
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Jill Tarter
(Mountain View, USA) |
is an expert on Exobiology. She holds the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and heads the SETI institute. |
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Questions can be asked in German and will be translated into English. Answers will be given in English. For further information and questions contact our press officer Jakob Staude (Tel.: +49-6221-528-207) |
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MPG Press Release PRI SP 3 / 2003 (34) (in german)
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MPG Press Release PRI SP 2 / 2003 (20) (in german)
(english version)
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MPIA Press Release 03-02-18
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