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* Registration deadline extended: You now have until Monday, November 28 to register for this conference. The deadline is to ensure that adequate food and supplies are available.

* All-Star Presenters: This conference will feature some of NASA's top "small bodies" talent. Currently scheduled presenters include Dr. Mike Brown of Caltech (discoverer of the 10th planet), Dr. Scott Sandford of NASA's Ames Research Center (member of the Stardust and Hayabusa science teams), Dr. Bonnie Buratti of the New Horizons Pluto mission, and Dr. Don Yeomans, Manager of the JPL Near-Earth Objects Program.

* Out of town visitors: There are no accommodations close to JPL. Although JPL has no relationship to them, the Courtyard (Marriott) Hotel in Pasadena has expressed a willingness to provide a shuttle to and from JPL if there are enough participants. They are NOT "the official hotel of the conference" or anything like that but they may have a JPL room rate. The hotel's website is:

http://marriott.com/property/propertypage....aCode=LAXOT< /A>

Please feel free to circulate this announcement to your colleagues and high school and above students.

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Comets, Asteroids, and Much More -

Small Bodies - The Solar System's New Zoo


NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Educator Conference -
December 3-4, 2005, Pasadena, Ca.

The solar system is full of objects and new discoveries take place almost daily. Some of these objects challenge our ability to name and categorize them. Are there nine planets? Eight? Ten? Dozens? Small objects of rock, metal and ice are extremely numerous and are puzzle pieces for the evolution of the solar system.

We are actively engaged in exploration of these objects. DEEP IMPACT successfully struck a comet nucleus in July, STARDUST is bringing back comet particles in January, DAWN will explore Main Belt asteroids, NEW HORIZONS will explore Kuiper Belt objects after its Pluto flyby, the European Space Agency's ROSETTA is on its way to asteroids and a comet, Japan's HAYABUSA sits just alongside an asteroid, and ground based observatories are probing the objects at the extreme edges of our solar system.

Please join scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for an educator conference on these objects. The conference will take place all day Saturday, December 3 and half day Sunday, December 4 at JPL in Pasadena, California. The conference is open to all educators including museum staff. High school students and above may attend. Anyone under sixteen years of age must be accompanied by an adult (parent or teacher).

Check-in begins at 8:00 a.m. Saturday. The conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude by 5:00 p.m. On Sunday the conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. end by noon.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in north Pasadena. For directions please visit

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/about_JPL/maps.cfm .

Note that pre-registration is required. Walk-up registration will not be possible for this conference.

To register for this conference please send in the following information and a registration check for $35 to cover materials costs, food (continental breakfast both days, box lunch on Saturday, and breaks) and incidentals.

Name
Title
School/Organization
Address
State
Zip
Citizenship (Please bring government issued photo ID)
Age (only if under 18 years of age)
Contact info for confirmation & last minute changes:
- E-mail
- Phone

Make $35 check payable to: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mail to:

Small Bodies Educator Conference
Attn: Kimberly Johansen
Mail Stop 186-113
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
(818) 354-0112

Registration deadline has been extended to Monday, November 28, 2005.

For current mission information visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/
For JPL education news visit: http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/