Oct 31, 2011

Trent J Perrotto Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0321 trent j perrotto@nasa gov

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@nasa gov

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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