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NASA to Hold Media Teleconference on Bizarre Star
blobrana
post Aug 14 2007, 07:00 PM
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Astronomers are scheduled to announce new findings about a star unlike any seen before at a media teleconference Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 17:00 GMT (1 p.m. EDT). The findings are from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US.

The briefing participants are:
- Christopher Martin, principal investigator of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
- Mark Seibert, astronomer, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, California.
- Michael Shara, curator at the American Museum of Natural History and professor of astronomy at Columbia University, both in New York

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post Aug 16 2007, 04:37 AM
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"...about a star unlike any seen before ..."

I'm more than a bit annoyed by the over-the-top PR hyperbole.
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- blobrana   NASA to Hold Media Teleconference on Bizarre Star   Aug 14 2007, 07:00 PM
- - edstrick   Brittany?   Aug 15 2007, 07:57 AM
- - tasp   {sorry for this} I can't help but recall Fr. ...   Aug 15 2007, 12:13 PM
- - Floyd   NASA press release   Aug 15 2007, 06:11 PM
- - ddeerrff   " NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has sp...   Aug 15 2007, 06:39 PM
- - nprev   Whatever speed it is that causes a shockwave to fo...   Aug 16 2007, 12:01 AM
- - Del Palmer   Wonderful discovery! It's nice to see t...   Aug 16 2007, 02:17 AM
- - edstrick   "...about a star unlike any seen before ......   Aug 16 2007, 04:37 AM

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