From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 18:43:35 PDT
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Tupper
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 9:10 PM
To: oss-update@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Space Science news from NASA HQ...
Hey folks,
I tell ya, much to my chagrin, I've been so busy working on the President's
Management Agenda
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budintegration/pma_index.html) and other
aspects of my main job (http://spacescience.nasa.gov/admin/bios/tupper.htm)
lately that I just haven't been able to get messages out to this list as
often as I'd like. If I can't shake free some more time in the next few
weeks and months, I'm gonna have to scout around here for a
replacement. Meanwhile, I appreciate your patience. Now then, freshly
posted at http://spacescience.nasa.gov :
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Our Hubble Space Telescope has measured the largest object in the solar
system seen since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. Approximately half
the size of Pluto, the icy world 2002 LM60 is the farthest object in the
solar system ever to be resolved by a telescope. A cool orb at
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2002/17/index.html
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We've released the first set of data taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft
to the Planetary Data System, which will now make the information available
to research scientists. Story at
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_185.cfm
Meanwhile, from our more veteran Mars spacecraft: 18,812 new images were
added to the Mars Global Surveyor online image gallery
today. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_187.cfm
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Some good folks from our SOHO mission have created 'The Sun As Art,' a
visually stunning and whimsical introduction to the workings of our closest
star. Pretty. http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/2002/02-140.htm
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For the first time, astronomers have tracked the life cycle of X-ray jets
from a black hole. A series of images from our Chandra X-ray Observatory
has revealed that as the jets evolved, they traveled at near light speed
for several years before slowing down and
fading. http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/02_releases/press_100302.html
Not same story... Multiple observations made over several months with
Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope have captured the spectacle of matter
and antimatter propelled to near the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a
rapidly rotating neutron star the size of
Manhattan. http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/02_releases/press_091902.html
There's keen-o movies (real data!) of both of those.
Cheers!
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