SETI public: Fw: ESA's Integral detects closest cosmic gamma-ray burst

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 08:42:44 PDT

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    Subject: ESA's Integral detects closest cosmic gamma-ray burst

    A gamma-ray burst detected by ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory on 3 December 2003 has been thoroughly studied for months by an armada of space and ground-based observatories. Astronomers have now concluded that this event, called GRB 031203, is the closest cosmic gamma-ray burst on record, but also the faintest. This also suggests that an entire population of sub-energetic gamma-ray bursts has so far gone unnoticed...

    For further information, please see: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/Pr_18_2004_s_en.html>

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