NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  Mar. 20, 2000
Media Advisory m00-54


SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES:

SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE ON MYSTERIOUS GAMMA-RAY DISCOVERY MARCH 22


VIDEO:

VIDEO FILE:

ITEM 1 - NEAR PROVIDES IMAGES OF ASTROID EROS - GSFC (REPLAY)
ITEM 2 - PULSE OF THE PLANET IMAGES FROM SEAWIFS -GSFC (REPLAY)


LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK



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LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK

March 20, Monday
- *Midnight - 1:30 am - FY 2001 Human Space Flight Budget Hearing
   before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics;
   Committee on Science (recorded 3/16/00) - HQ
- *1:30 - 3:00 am - FY 2001 Posture Hearing before the House
   Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies; Appropriations
   Committee (recorded 3/15/00) - HQ

March 22, Wednesday
- 1:00 pm - Gamma Ray Space Science Update - HQ

March 23, Thursday
- 6:00 - 10:00 am - Students Help NASA Test International Space
  Station Science Communications Live News Interviews - MSFC
- 10:00 am - Noon - IMAGE Validation Testing - Vandenberg Air
  Force Base, CA
- 1:00 - 4:00 pm - NASA Management Hearing before the Senate
  Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space; Commerce, Science
  and Transportation Committee (recorded 3/22/00) - HQ
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm - Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications
  FY 2001 Budget Hearing before the House Subcommittee on Space
  and Aeronautics; Committee on Science - HQ

March 24, Friday
- 6:00 - 10:00 am - Students Help NASA Test International Space
  Station Science Communications Live News Interviews - MSFC
- 1:00 pm - Gamma Ray Observatory Press Conference - HQ
- 2:00 pm - IMAGE L-1 Prelaunch Press Conference - Vandenberg Air
  Force Base, CA

March 25, Saturday
- 2:00 pm - Live Coverage and Commentary of the IMAGE Launch -
  Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA
- 3:35 pm - IMAGE Launch - Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA



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NEWS RELEASES:

SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE ON MYSTERIOUS GAMMA-RAY DISCOVERY MARCH 22

     A mystery surrounding previously unidentified gamma-ray
sources found in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is the subject of
a Space Science Update at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, March 22, at the
James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., SW,
Washington, DC.  The discovery of these puzzling objects and
speculation on their characteristics will be discussed in the
March 23 issue of Nature magazine. The findings are from NASA's
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) spacecraft.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Dolores Beasley
(Phone 202/358-1753).
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:  Nancy
Neal (Phone 301/286-0039).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-008.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:

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ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO
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WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.
and midnight Eastern Time.

NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 degrees
West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0
megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.

Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will
continue to be posted at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html

For general information about NASA TV see:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/



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