NASA Daily News Summary for Feb. 9, 2000
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Summary:

No News Issued Releases Today
Video File Advisory for Feb. 9, 2000


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NASA has issued no news releases today. If any are issued 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 File Advisory for Feb. 9, 2000

Item 1 - Choctaw Students Benefit from NASA Technology

Item 2 - NEAR Encounter with Eros (replay)

Item 3 SOHO - Suicidal Comets (replay)

Item 4 STS-99 Mission B-roll and Crew Interviews

Item 1 - Choctaw Students Benefit from NASA Technology

B-roll footage and interviews of NASA Educators interacting with students at the
Choctaw Central High School, near Philadelphia, MS. Under a National Space Act
Agreement between NASA and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, NASA has
established and Educator Resource Center at the school. The educators stress to
students the importance of science and technology in education.

Item 2 - NEAR Encounter with Eros (replay)

Don Savage
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone:  202/358-1547)

Helen Worth
JHUAPL, Laurel, MD
(Phone:  240/228-5113)

Item 2a - Animation shows NASA's NEAR spacecraft as it approaches the 433
Eros asteroid.  The spacecraft is less than 3,500 miles from Eros and is
closing in at about 18 mph relative to the asteroid.  It is expected to
rendezvous on Feb. 14, 2000 and will be the first spacecraft to orbit an
asteroid.  The infrared spectrometer aboard NEAR will be used to determine
its mineral composition.
TRT - 1:13

Interview excerpts:

Item 2b - Dr. Robert Farquhar
NEAR Mission director
TRT - :54

Item 2c - Dr. Andrew F. Cheng
NEAR Project scientist
TRT - 1:14

Item 2d - Dr. Naom R. Izenberg
NEAR Instrument Scientist
TRT - 1:14

Item 3 SOHO - Suicidal Comets (replay)

Item 4 STS-99 Mission B-roll and Crew Interviews


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WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

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audio on 6.8 megahertz.

For general questions about the video file call NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC: Ray Castillo 202/358-4555 or Elvia Thompson
202/358-1696.

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