NASA will host a Google+ Hangout from 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, to discuss Comet ISON's journey through our solar system and what the public worldwide may see in the coming days as the comet traverses the sun on Thanksgiving Day.
Watch and ask questions as NASA solar physicists track the comet live from the mission control for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft during ISON's closest approach to the sun.
Discovered in late 2012, ISON will pass within 684,000 miles of the sun. The comet may contain the same fundamental building blocks that led to the formation of life on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago.
The Hangout will be broadcast publicly on NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's YouTube and Google+ pages. The Hangout also will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website.
Panelists for the Google+ Hangout are:
- C. Alex Young, solar physicist, associate director for Science in the Heliophysics Science Division and co-founder of The Sun Today - Goddard
- W. Dean Pesnell, solar physicist and project scientist for the Solar Dynamics Observatory - Goddard
- Karl Battams, comet scientist for the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington and solar spacecraft lead for NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign, joining from Kitt Peak Observatory in Ariz., where the solar telescope will be observing ISON
- Phil Plait, writes Slate's 'Bad Astronomy' blog and is an astronomer, science evangelizer and author of the books "Bad Astronomy" and "Death from the Skies!"
NASA scientists will answer the public's questions live on air on Google+, in the YouTube comments section during the live broadcast, or via Twitter using #ISON and #askNASA.
To join the Hangout, visit: http://go.nasa.gov/IiODhs
Source: NASA
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