NASA announces media teleconference on Chandra discovery

Erica Hupp/Dolores Beasley
Headquarters, Washington May 3, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1237/1753)

Megan Watzke
Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass.
(Phone: 617/496-7998)

MEDIA ADVISORY: M05-074

NASA ANNOUNCES MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON CHANDRA DISCOVERY

New information about the violent youth of stars like our sun, and
implications for planet survival, will be presented during a media
teleconference Tuesday, May 10, at 1 p.m. EDT.

For participation information, including the Web site where graphics and
other materials will be posted, reporters should call the Chandra X-ray
Center Press Office at: 617/496-7998.

Participants:

-- Dr. Michael Salamon, Universe Division discipline scientist for
Fundamental Physics, NASA Headquarters, Washington

-- Dr. Scott Wolk, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.

-- Dr. Eric Feigelson, professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State,
University Park

-- Dr. Joan Najita, astronomer, National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
Tucson, Ariz.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra
program for the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Northrop Grumman of
Redondo Beach, Calif., was the prime development contractor for the
observatory. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls science and
flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Mass. The
findings come from the deepest X-ray observation of a star cluster ever
taken.




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