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For Release: Feb. 28, 2000
Media Advisory m00-038a

ALL TIMES EASTERN


ELUSIVE GAMMA RAYS BEWARE:  GLAST INVESTIGATION SELECTED  

     NASA today announced the selection of an investigation 
to be flown on the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope 
(GLAST) mission, planned for launch in 2005.  In addition to 
the flight investigation, NASA selected four 
interdisciplinary scientist investigations to broaden the 
scientific expertise available to the project. 

     GLAST will explore the most energetic and violent events 
in a quest for the ultimate sources of energy in the 
Universe.  Objects explored will include distant galaxies 
fueled by super massive black holes at the center, neutron 
stars and individual black holes, remnants of stars that have 
ended their life with an explosion (supernova), and many 
others at the extremes of mass and energy. 


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Dolores Beasley 
(Phone 202/358-1753).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-032.txt 



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