NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  Mar. 17, 2000
Media Advisory m00-53


SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES:

None today.



VIDEO:

VIDEO FILE:

ITEM 1 -  NASA SPACECRAFT TO STUDY IMPACT OF MAGNETIC STORMS 
        - GSFC
ITEM 2 -  NEAR PROVIDES IMAGES OF ASTROID EROS - GSFC
ITEM 3 -  YUKON METEORITE DISCOVERED -JSC (REPLAY)


LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK



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LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK

March 16, Thursday
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm - FY2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the House
  Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent
  Agencies (recorded 3/15/00) - HQ
- 4:30 - 7:00 pm - KC-135 Student Campaign Live News Interviews 
  - JSC

March 17, Friday
- 1:00 - 6:00 pm - Johnson Space Center Regional First Robotics
  Competition - Astro Arena, Houston, TX (direct uplink to NTV)

March 18, Saturday
- 8:00 am - 6:00 pm - Langley Research Center Eastern Regional 
  First Robotics Competition - Virginia Commonwealth University, 
  Richmond, VA (direct uplink to NTV)



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NEWS RELEASES:

None today.



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If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-
mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html



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VIDEO:

Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.

ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO 
FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT 
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt
WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.
and midnight Eastern Time.

NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 degrees
West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0
megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.

Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will
continue to be posted at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html

For general information about NASA TV see:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/



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