NASA Daily News Summary for Feb. 9, 2000 m00-24

NASA Daily News Summary for Feb. 9, 2000

m00-24

Summary:
No News Issued Releases Today

Video File Advisory for Feb. 9, 2000
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NASA has issued no news releases today. If any are issued 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 File Advisory for Feb. 9, 2000
Item 1 – Choctaw Students Benefit from NASA Technology
Item 2 – NEAR Encounter with Eros (replay)
Item 3 SOHO – Suicidal Comets (replay)
Item 4 STS-99 Mission B-roll and Crew Interviews
Item 1 – Choctaw Students Benefit from NASA Technology
B-roll footage and interviews of NASA Educators interacting with students at the

Choctaw Central High School, near Philadelphia, MS. Under a National Space Act

Agreement between NASA and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, NASA has

established and Educator Resource Center at the school. The educators stress to

students the importance of science and technology in education.
Item 2 – NEAR Encounter with Eros (replay)
Don Savage

NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC

(Phone:  202/358-1547)
Helen Worth

JHUAPL, Laurel, MD

(Phone:  240/228-5113)
Item 2a – Animation shows NASA’s NEAR spacecraft as it approaches the 433

Eros asteroid.  The spacecraft is less than 3,500 miles from Eros and is

closing in at about 18 mph relative to the asteroid.  It is expected to

rendezvous on Feb. 14, 2000 and will be the first spacecraft to orbit an

asteroid.  The infrared spectrometer aboard NEAR will be used to determine

its mineral composition.

TRT – 1:13
Interview excerpts:
Item 2b – Dr. Robert Farquhar

NEAR Mission director

TRT – :54
Item 2c – Dr. Andrew F. Cheng

NEAR Project scientist

TRT – 1:14
Item 2d – Dr. Naom R. Izenberg

NEAR Instrument Scientist

TRT – 1:14
Item 3 SOHO – Suicidal Comets (replay)
Item 4 STS-99 Mission B-roll and Crew Interviews
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