NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  June 19, 2000
Media Advisory m00-120


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES

  MORE ACCURATE SPACE STORM WARNINGS NOW POSSIBLE

  NASA's SHARP PROGRAM CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE



VIDEO

  ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  VIDEO FILE FOR JUNE 19, 2000

    ITEM 1 - PREDICTING ARRIVAL OF CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS -
             GSFC
    ITEM 2 - DIGITAL HUMAN-IMAGE ANIMATION COMPUTER SYSTEM - JPL
             (REPLAY)


  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



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NEWS RELEASES


MORE ACCURATE SPACE STORM WARNINGS NOW POSSIBLE

     The arrival from the Sun of billion-ton electrified-gas
clouds that cause severe space storms can now be predicted to
within a half-day, a great improvement over the best previous
estimates of within 2 to 5 days.

     Scientists at the Catholic University of America, Washington,
D.C., and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, have
created a model that reliably predicts how much time it takes for
these clouds, called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), to traverse
the gulf between the Sun and the Earth, based on their initial
speed from the Sun and their interaction with the solar wind.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Dolores Beasley
(Phone: 202/358-1753).

Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:  Susan
Hendrix (Phone: 310/286-7745).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-095.txt


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NASA's SHARP PROGRAM CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

     NASA and Modern Technology Systems, Inc.,Riverdale, MD, have
selected 200 high school students to work at eleven participating
NASA field installations in the 2000 Summer High School
Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP).

     SHARP is an intensive science and engineering apprenticeship
program specifically designed to attract and increase
underrepresented students' participation and success rates in
mathematics, science and engineering courses, as well as to
encourage career paths that help build a pool of underrepresented
science and engineering professionals in the workplace.

    Celebrating its twentieth year, the eight-week summer program
is sponsored by NASA's Education Division and participating NASA
installations. This years' program began on June 5th and will
continue through August 18th.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Sonja Alexander
(Phone:  202/358-1761).

Contact at Modern Technology Systems, Inc., Riverdale, MD:  Lisa
M. Williams (Phone:  301/985-5171).


For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-096.txt



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If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-
mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html



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VIDEO


UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS


June 21, Wednesday
- *TBD - NASA's Mars Program after the Young Report Hearing Before
   the House Committee on Science (recorded on 6/20/00) - HQ

June 24, Saturday
- 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. - That NASA Show:  "Space Clothes" and
  "Tortillas in Space" - HQ
- 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. - That NASA Show:  "Space Clothes" and
  "Tortillas in Space" - HQ
- 11:00 a.m. - Noon - That NASA Show:  "Space Clothes" and
  "Tortillas in Space" - HQ

June 25, Sunday
- 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. - That NASA Show:  "Space Clothes" and
  "Tortillas in Space" - HQ
- 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. - That NASA Show:  "Space Clothes" and
  "Tortillas in Space" - HQ
- 11:00 a.m. - Noon - That NASA Show:  "Space Clothes" and
  "Tortillas in Space" - HQ

For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html



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