Dolores Beasley
Headquarters, Washington                       April 5, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Steve Roy
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256/544-6535)

Megan Watkze
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
(Phone: 617/496-7998)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N02-23

CHANDRA UNCOVERS EVIDENCE FOR A NEW FORM OF MATTER: SPACE 
SCIENCE UPDATE, APRIL 10

     New observations from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory 
provide a window to new forms of matter. This significant 
discovery, which challenges some of the most fundamental 
questions in physics, is the topic of a Space Science Update 
scheduled for 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday, April 10, in the James E. 
Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW in 
Washington.

The Space Science Update panelists will be:
*  Anne Kinney, director of the Astronomy and Physics 
Division, Office of Space Science, NASA headquarters, 
Washington
*  Jeremy Drake, Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center 
for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
*  Norman Glendenning, Senior Scientist Emeritus, Lawrence 
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.
*  David Helfand, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 
Columbia University, New York
*  Michael Turner, Professor and Chair of the Department of 
Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago 

The Space Science Update will be carried live on NASA 
Television with two-way question-and-answer capability for 
reporters covering the briefing from NASA centers. NASA TV is 
broadcast on satellite GE-2, transponder 9C, at 85 degrees 
West longitude, vertical polarization, frequency 3880 MHz, 
audio of 6.8 MHz. 

The briefing will also be webcast live on the Internet at:

http://www.nasa.gov

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