From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Sep 21 2005 - 15:56:20 UTC
>From: SciTech.editorial_at_esa.int
>To: ljk4_at_msn.com
>Subject: Double Star and Cluster observe brightest starquake ever
>Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:47:23 +0200 (CEST)
>
>MISSION NEWS AS OF 21 SEPTEMBER 2005
>
>+HERSCHEL PM INSTALLATION FOR SOLAR SIMULATOR TEST
>Preparations for the upcoming test of the Herschel payload module in the
>large solar simulator at ESTEC are well underway, with the installation of
>the module in the test facility.
>http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=37961
>
>+PLANCK QUALIFICATION MODEL
>The Planck Qualification Model is being tested at the Centre Spatial de
>Liège, where it currently resides in the thermal vacuum chamber.
>http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=37956
>
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>MISSION RESULTS
>
>+DOUBLE STAR AND CLUSTER OBSERVE FIRST EVIDENCE OF CRUSTAL CRACKING
>The Double Star TC-2 and Cluster satellites have gathered unique data from
>the biggest starquake on a neutron star ever recorded, enabling the
>discrimination between current theories on the origin of these type of
>events.
>http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=37944
>
>+HUBBLE FINDS MYSTERIOUS DISK OF BLUE STARS AROUND A BLACK HOLE
>[HEIC0512]
>Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the
>source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in
>our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though the light has puzzled
>astronomers for more than a decade, the new discovery makes the story even
>more mysterious.
>http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=37937
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>ANNOUNCEMENTS
>
>+ASTRO-F ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY
>Members of the scientific community in all of the ESA member states are
>invited to respond to the Announcement of Opportunity to submit proposals
>for observations to be performed with ASTRO-F, the Japanese infrared
>all-sky survey mission.
>http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=37955
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