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Re: (meteorobs) Feb 26 1998 Solar Eclipse
At 12:31 PM 2/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>A bit off the subject, but does anyone have any info about what time the
>eclipse will be observable from the U.S.???
Ron, not exactly what you were looking for, but if you tune in the rabbit
ears
you can see it no matter where you are.......
-Mark
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Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC February 18, 1998
(Phone: 202/358-1547)
NOTE TO EDITORS: N98-17
NASA OUTLINES PLANS TO STUDY FEB. 26 TOTAL ECLIPSE
The Feb. 26 total eclipse will be visible from a narrow
corridor which begins in the Pacific, continues through the
Caribbean and ends off the Atlantic coast of Africa. Much of
the south and eastern U.S. will see a partial eclipse.
NASA's plans to study the eclipse include:
* Researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD, will be among international teams of scientists
who will observe the eclipse from Curacao, Guadeloupe, and
Aruba, using solar telescopes to analyze the structure and
magnetic activity of the Sun's corona. Scientists are
available to discuss the upcoming solar eclipse. Contact Bill
Steigerwald, Goddard Public Affairs Office, 301/286-8955 (see
note below for live interviews on NASA TV).
* The NASA/European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar and
Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft will assist eclipse
expeditions from around the world by making simultaneous
observations during the eclipse that will reveal a more
complete picture of what is occurring on the Sun. Contact Bill
Steigerwald, Goddard Public Affairs Office, 301/286-8955.
* The NASA/ESA Ulysses spacecraft, now in polar orbit
around the Sun, will give scientists a "birds-eye view" of huge
loops of solar material tearing away from the Sun's corona.
These ejections of solar mass can be seen from ground-based
observatories during solar eclipses, but Ulysses' orbit above
the Sun's poles gives scientists another perspective from which
to better understand these potentially dangerous storms.
Ulysses scientists are available for interviews about the
upcoming solar eclipse by contacting Diane Ainsworth in the
Media Relations Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, CA, 818/354-5011.
NASA TV plans the following:
* An eclipse preview Video File will run on NASA-TV
several times in February. Elements in the Video File include
animation showing the path of the eclipse, some safe eclipse
viewing tips, and examples of how scientists use 'artificial'
eclipses to study the Sun's corona.
* NASA will offer live interviews with Art Poland of the
SOHO team. Dr. Poland will give eclipse viewing tips & fun
facts and explain how scientists use artificial eclipses to
continuously monitor the Sun's corona. The Live Shots are
scheduled the evening of Feb. 25 and the morning of Feb. 26.
Contact Wade Sisler, Goddard Space Flight Center, 301/286-6256.
* A time-lapse movie of the moon's shadow as it sweeps
across the Earth will be taken by the GOES satellite during the
four-hour event. If the images can be processed in time, NASA
TV will broadcast a special edition of the Video File around 4-
5 p.m. EST.
NASA Television is available through the GE-2 satellite,
transponder 9C located at 85 degrees West longitude, vertical
polarization, with a frequency of 3880 MHz, and audio at 6.8 MHz.
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