AAVSO ALERT NOTICE 343 (November 10, 2006)
SUBJECT: RARE OUTBURST OF 2320-08 EG AQUARII
Object: 2320-08 EG AQUARII
Coordinates: R.A. = 23h 25m 19.17s Decl. = -08o 18' 18.9" (USNO-B1.0, 2000)
Other (2000) positions reported include:
23:25:19.20 -08:18:18.9 (P. Schmeer, measurement of Univ. Iowa image)
23:25:19.20 -08:18:19.2 (A. Imada)
23:25:19.21 -08:18:19.6 (Henden and Sumner)
April 11, 2006
Grey Hautaluoma/Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-0668/1726
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
(410) 338-4514
RELEASE: 06-135
NASA JOINS PARTNERS FOR OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY MISSION
NASA has signed an agreement with other U.S. and international
agencies to launch the Ocean Surface Topography Mission in 2008.
NASA has awarded a subcontract to Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo
Beach,
Calif., to develop an ultra-cold mechanical helium cryocooler for the
Mid-Infrared Instrument on the
James Webb Space Telescope. The contract totals about $22 million.
Nearly 400 years after Galileo determined the wispy Milky Way actually
comprises myriad individual stars, scientists using NASA's Rossi
X-ray Timing Explorer have done the same for the "X-ray Milky Way."
