Oct. 31, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@xxxxxxxx MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-223 NASA'S FERMI TO REVEAL NEW FINDINGS ABOUT PULSARS WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Nov. 3, to discuss new discoveries about pulsars by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. A pulsar is the closest thing to a black hole astronomers can observe directly. Pulsars are capable of crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. Some of these objects spin tens of thousands of revolutions per minute, faster than the blades of a kitchen blender. Participants are: - Paulo Freire, astrophysicist, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany - Pablo Saz Parkinson, astrophysicist, University of California at Santa Cruz - Bruce Allen, director, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany - Victoria Kaspi, physics professor, McGill University in Montreal For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their name, media affiliation and telephone number to Trent Perrotto at trent.j.perrotto@xxxxxxxx. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio For more information about NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/fermi -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
