NASA New Horizons Hangout – Countdown to Pluto, Friday 2:30 EDT

Can you believe it? We’re less than a month away from NASA’s New Horizons‘ historic flight past the dwarf planet Pluto. I’m sure you’ve got a zillion questions about the mission and want to hear how everything’s going.

Well, you’re in luck. Primary investigator Alan Stern, as well as several member of the science team and NASA will be on hand on Friday, June 19th at 11:30 am PDT (2:30 pm EDT) to have a special Google+ Hangout on Air just to talk about the mission. They’ll also be interacting with the audience and answering your questions about the mission.

Want to watch it live? Click here and then select that you’re going to attend. That’ll put the event right into your calendar. Then come back at 11:30/2:30 on Friday and watch it live.

New Horizons Hangout – Countdown to Pluto

Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast with Dr. Pamela Gay. Here's a link to my Mastodon account.

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