NASA's Fermi to Reveal New Findings About Pulsars

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 

	
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