Dolores Beasley
Headquarters, Washington      September 16, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Steve Roy
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256/544-6535)

Megan Watkze
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, 
Mass.
(Phone: 617/496-7998)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N02-65

ACTION! REVEALING MOVIE SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON CRAB PULSAR: 
SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE SEPTEMBER 19

     Thanks to the combined power of NASA's Chandra X-ray 
Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, the Crab pulsar, 
a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manhattan, is 
providing a new look at what is occurring in our universe. 

A Space Science Update, at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 19, 
will include a movie revealing features of the Crab not seen 
before in still images. The Update will be held in the James 
E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, 
Washington.

The Space Science Update panelists will be:
* Paul Hertz, Senior Scientist and Chandra Program 
Executive, Astronomy and Physics Division, Office of Space 
Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington
* John Jeffrey Hester, Professor, Department of Physics and 
Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe
* David N. Burrows, Senior Scientist and Professor, Penn 
State University, University Park
* Victoria Kaspi, Physics Professor, McGill University, 
Montreal
* Robert P. Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Mass.

The Space Science Update will be carried live on NASA 
Television with two-way question-and-answer capability for 
reporters covering the briefing from NASA centers. NASA 
Television is broadcast on satellite GE-2, transponder 9C, 
at 85 degrees West longitude, vertical polarization, 
frequency 3880 MHz, audio of 6.8 MHz.

The briefing will also be webcast live via links at:
http://www.nasa.gov

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