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Last minute speaker change

03/15/06

Carolyn Porco has just informed us that due to circumstances beyond her control she will not be able to speak at the convention. Taking her place is fellow Cassini team member Dr. Andrew Ingersoll.

It seems that the Cassini mission will probably be extended and NASA has set project deadlines that conflict with the weekend of the convention. Dr. Porco is extremely disappointed that she will not be able to fulfill here commitment to speak.

Dr. Carolyn Porco - NASA imaging scientist. Dr. Porco received her PhD in 1983 from the California Institute of Technology in Planetary Science, as part of the Voyager imaging team worked on Voyager's encounters with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Currently Dr. Porco is the leader of the Cassini Science Imaging Team and a lead imaging scientist on the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt mission, to be launched in early 2006. In addition to being a Senior Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and an Adjunct Professor at both the University of Colorado and the University of Arizona she has made numerous appearances on radio and television explaining science to the general public. In late 1999, she was selected by the Sunday London Times as one of 18 scientific leaders of the 21st century.








Rev: 03/17/06