The AAS has had repeated requests from members for
information on topics likely to be featured in the news media during and
immediately after the national meetings of the Society. The most likely topics
are those featured in press conferences at the meetings.
Here is a list of the press events anticipated at the
Seattle meeting, along with the
abstract numbers of the related papers. It is emphasized that topics are
selected on the basis of what we believe is newsworthy (likely to be reported
widely) and that the Society does not endorse individual scientific results nor
judge their scientific significance. All times are PST.
Monday, 6 January
2003
9:30 AM Press Conference:
DISCOVERIES IN THE MILKY WAY
Report from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey
Based on abstract 65.02.
What the VLA Reveals
The Latest from the Chandra X-ray
Observatory
Based on abstracts 31.05 and
31.08.
12:30 PM Press Conference:
EXTRASOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS AND RELATED TOPICS
Lowest Luminosity Brown
Dwarf
Based on abstract 33.05.
Parent Bodies in the Sigma Herculis
System
Based on abstract 25.04.
Extrasolar Meteors
Based on
abstract 49.11.
Distant Planet Search
3:30 PM Background Briefing
BEYOND EINSTEIN
Tuesday, 7 January
2003
9:30 AM Press Conference:
POWERFUL GRAVITATIONAL LENS SEEN WITH THE ADVANCED CAMERA FOR SURVEYS ON
THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
Based on abstract 32.04.
11:00 AM Press Conference:
MILLENNIUM OUTBURST OF A YELLOW HYPERGIANT STAR
Based on abstract 49.09.
12:30 PM Press Conference:
THE SPEED OF GRAVITY
Based on abstract 101.07.
3:30 PM Seminar for Science Writers:
INFRARED ASTRONOMY
Wednesday, 8 January
2003
9:30 AM Press Conference:
PROPLYDS NEAR AND FAR
Findings from the Keck II
Telescope on Mauna
Kea
Based on abstract 93.15.
Observations with the 4-m Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Based
on abstract 93.11.
12:30 PM Press Conference:
THE STAR THAT GOT AWAY
Multi-epoch observations of a
triple star in Taurus with the VLA
Based on abstract 136.02.
2:00 PM Press Conference:
AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY AND THE
INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASOCIATION
Thursday, 9 January
2003
9:30 AM Press Conference:
THE EARLY UNIVERSE AFTER THE DARK
AGES
Distant Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey
Based on abstract 114.14.
Lower-Luminosity Objects at the End of the
Reionization Era – Deep Observations with the Wide
Field Camera and the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space
Telescope
Based on abstract 32.07.
11:30 AM Press Conference:
PROGRESS REPORT ON THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE
1:00 PM Press Tour
TOUR TO THE GRAVITY RESEARCH LABORATORY,
UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON
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