Dolores Beasley
Headquarters, Washington, DC                  April 25, 2000
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Amber Jones
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
(Phone: 703/306-1070)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N00-19

BOOMERANG NEWS BRIEFING: SATELLITE CHANGE
 
     Due to the launch delay of STS 101, the BOOMERANG science 
briefing, scheduled for 
2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 26 will not be carried live on NASA 
Television.  Instead the briefing will be broadcast live on the 
KU-band GE3 satellite, transponder 17, horizontal polarization, 
frequency 12040 MHz, audio 6.2 and 6.8 MHz.

     Images from the briefing will be on the satellite at 1:55 
p.m. EDT and immediately following the news briefing.

     Media who wish to listen to the briefing on the telephone can 
call toll-free: 800/369-1775; passcode: Boomerang.  The phone 
lines will open at 1:45 p.m. EDT and will be open through the 
duration of the news briefing.  A live webcast of the briefing 
will be available on: 

                   http://www.nasa.gov

     Reporters may attend the briefing at the James E. Webb 
Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., SW, Washington, DC.  
There will not be question-and-answer capability from NASA 
Centers.

     BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic 
Radiation and Geophysics) obtained the first detailed images of 
the early universe using an extremely sensitive telescope 
suspended from a balloon that circumnavigated the Antarctic for 10 
1/2 days during December 1998 and January 1999. 

     The BOOMERANG project is supported by NASA, the National 
Science Foundation and the Department of Energy in the United 
States; by the Italian Space Agency, the Italian Antarctic 
Research Programme and the University of Rome La Sapienza in 
Italy; and by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council 
in the United Kingdom.  The 36 team members come from 16 
universities and organizations in the United States, Italy, United 
Kingdom and Canada. 
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