Doug Isbell/Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC                          March 2, 1998
(Phone:  202/358-1547)

Elizabeth Carter
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
(Phone:  650/604-2742 )

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N98-23

LUNAR PROSPECTOR INITIAL SCIENCE RESULTS BRIEFING ON MARCH 5

       The initial scientific findings and status of NASA's Lunar 
Prospector mission, now in orbit around the Moon, will be the 
subject of a press briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Thursday, March 5, at 
NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.  Lunar Prospector, 
the third mission in NASA's Discovery Program of lower-cost, highly 
focused Solar System exploration missions, was launched Jan. 6, 
1998, to provide the first global maps of the Moon's elemental 
surface composition and gravitational and magnetic fields.  The 
briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television with two-way 
question-and-answer capability for reporters covering from 
participating NASA Centers.  

       Participants in the press briefing are: 

  *  Scott Hubbard, Lunar Prospector Mission Manager, Ames Research 
Center
  *  Dr. Alan Binder, Lunar Prospector Principal Investigator, 
Lunar Research Institute, Gilroy, CA
  *  Dr. William Feldman, Co-Investigator for the Gamma Ray 
Spectrometer, 
     Neutron Spectrometer, and the Alpha Particle Spectrometer, Los 
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  *  Dr. Alex Konopliv, Co-Investigator for the Doppler Gravity 
Experiment, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

       NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 
degrees West longitude, with vertical polarization.  Frequency is 
on 3880.0 megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.  Information on 
Lunar Prospector is available on the Internet at the following 
address: 

                http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov

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