More Strange Things On and Around Pluto
“From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, NASA’s New Horizons science team is discussing more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto at this week’s 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences in National Harbor, Maryland.”
NASA Blames “Organizational Confusion” for Embargo on Latest New Horizons Results, Space News
“Scientists involved with NASA’s New Horizons mission showed off the latest analysis of data collected during the spacecraft’s flyby of Pluto in July, despite “organizational confusion” at the event that mistakenly prevented attendees from initially sharing the results with the public. However, that debate of the findings was initially limited to the people attending the meeting. Attendees of the morning conference sessions Nov. 9 were told that the results were embargoed until a midday press conference. This prevented both scientists and reporters from sharing the results presented in those talks to the public, including through social media, much to the consternation of some in attendance. Sources at the conference blamed the embargo on NASA, in contrary to the conference embargo policy established for conferences run by the American Astronomical Society. Niebur said later that the embargo was a misunderstanding that won’t apply to other sessions during the week-long conference. “There was some kind of miscommunication,” he said. “There was a little bit of organizational confusion.”
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NASA’s Blatant Hint About Its Own Embargoed Research News (Update), earlier post
“What is the purpose of these embargoes if NASA is just going to play games with access to the embargoed news? And why does it allow a magazine like Science control how taxpayer-funded news is released?”
Too bad I can’t embargo my tax dollars until I get to see science results I already paid for.
That is because the public affairs office is staffed with bunch of rejects that spend more time on coffee and lunch breaks. And everything they do manage to “review for release” has to go through the security office that is staffed by their cousins.