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For Release:  March 14, 2000
Media Advisory m00-049a

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GLAST SECONDARY INVESTIGATION SELECTED TO MONITOR GAMMA RAY BURSTS

NASA has selected the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) to be flown on 
the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission, planned 
for launch in 2005.  This instrument will complement the primary 
instrument, the GLAST Large Area Telescope Flight Investigation, 
selected Feb. 28, 2000.  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 their center, neutron stars 
and individual black holes that are the remnants of stars that 
have ended their life with an explosion (supernova), and many 
other stars 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/2000/00-039.txt 



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