Oct 31 2011
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-223 NASA'S FERMI TO REVEAL NEW FINDINGS ABOUT PULSARS
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Nov. 3, to discuss new discoveries about pulsars by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. A pulsar is the closest thing to a black hole astronomers can observe directly. Pulsars are capable of crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. Some of these objects spin tens of thousands of revolutions per minute, faster than the blades of a kitchen blender. Participants are: - Paulo Freire, astrophysicist, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany - Pablo Saz Parkinson, astrophysicist, University of California at Santa Cruz - Bruce Allen, director, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany - Victoria Kaspi, physics professor, McGill University in Montreal
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-225 NASA Kennedy Space Center HOSTS LAUNCH: ENERGY FORUM NOV. 11 - 13
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA and partners from the LAUNCH: Energy forum will discuss innovative ideas during a three-day forum Nov. 11-13. Reporters are invited to attend the forum at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. LAUNCH: Energy is part of an ongoing initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums. It is the third forum in the series. LAUNCH allows NASA to propel innovative solutions that help those outside the agency make the connection between our lives on Earth and how we live and work in space. Through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s involvement, LAUNCH places a special emphasis on accelerating innovations poised for large scale impact in improving the lives of people in the developing world. During the forum, 10 international participants will showcase new innovations that could address energy problems on Earth and in space. NASA, USAID, Nike Inc., and the U.S. Department of State are LAUNCH founding partners. The partners all contributed to planning the forum, selecting innovators and recruiting other event participants.
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