NASA Daily News Summary For Release: June 19, 2000 Media Advisory m00-120 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES MORE ACCURATE SPACE STORM WARNINGS NOW POSSIBLE NASA's SHARP PROGRAM CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE VIDEO ***ALL TIMES EASTERN*** VIDEO FILE FOR JUNE 19, 2000 ITEM 1 - PREDICTING ARRIVAL OF CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS - GSFC ITEM 2 - DIGITAL HUMAN-IMAGE ANIMATION COMPUTER SYSTEM - JPL (REPLAY) UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS ***************************** NEWS RELEASES MORE ACCURATE SPACE STORM WARNINGS NOW POSSIBLE The arrival from the Sun of billion-ton electrified-gas clouds that cause severe space storms can now be predicted to within a half-day, a great improvement over the best previous estimates of within 2 to 5 days. Scientists at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, have created a model that reliably predicts how much time it takes for these clouds, called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), to traverse the gulf between the Sun and the Earth, based on their initial speed from the Sun and their interaction with the solar wind. Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dolores Beasley (Phone: 202/358-1753). Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Susan Hendrix (Phone: 310/286-7745). For full text, see: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-095.txt ---------------------------- NASA's SHARP PROGRAM CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE NASA and Modern Technology Systems, Inc.,Riverdale, MD, have selected 200 high school students to work at eleven participating NASA field installations in the 2000 Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP). SHARP is an intensive science and engineering apprenticeship program specifically designed to attract and increase underrepresented students' participation and success rates in mathematics, science and engineering courses, as well as to encourage career paths that help build a pool of underrepresented science and engineering professionals in the workplace. Celebrating its twentieth year, the eight-week summer program is sponsored by NASA's Education Division and participating NASA installations. This years' program began on June 5th and will continue through August 18th. Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Sonja Alexander (Phone: 202/358-1761). Contact at Modern Technology Systems, Inc., Riverdale, MD: Lisa M. Williams (Phone: 301/985-5171). For full text, see: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-096.txt ---------------------------- 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 ***************************** VIDEO UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS June 21, Wednesday - *TBD - NASA's Mars Program after the Young Report Hearing Before the House Committee on Science (recorded on 6/20/00) - HQ June 24, Saturday - 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. - That NASA Show: "Space Clothes" and "Tortillas in Space" - HQ - 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. - That NASA Show: "Space Clothes" and "Tortillas in Space" - HQ - 11:00 a.m. - Noon - That NASA Show: "Space Clothes" and "Tortillas in Space" - HQ June 25, Sunday - 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. - That NASA Show: "Space Clothes" and "Tortillas in Space" - HQ - 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. - That NASA Show: "Space Clothes" and "Tortillas in Space" - HQ - 11:00 a.m. - Noon - That NASA Show: "Space Clothes" and "Tortillas in Space" - HQ For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html ----------------------------- Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN. 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