Ukrainian scientist lectures on NASA missions to comets (12/17/06)

Ukrainian scientist lectures on NASA missions to comets

WASHINGTON - Dr. Ludmilla Kolokolova, an associate scientist at the University of Maryland, describes the results of recent NASA exploratory missions to the earth's neighboring comets during a scientific presentation at the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington on December 9. Her lecture on the "Search for the Origin of the Solar System: Missions to Comets and Pluto," was the first in a series being planned by the Ukrainian Engineers' Society of America, The Washington Group of Ukrainian Professionals, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Embassy. Dr. Kolokolova, whose scientific interests cover the physics of cosmic dust and small bodies in the solar system, began her scientific career at the Ukrainian Academy of Science Astronomical Observatory in Ukraine. Since 1997 she has been working in the United States, first at the University of Florida and now at the University of Maryland, where most recently she has been analyzing data from NASA's Deep Impact mission to the Comet Tempel 1 in July of last year in the quest to learn more about the nature of comets, how they formed and evolved and if they had any role in the emergence of life on Earth.

- Yaro Bihun

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