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From: marty@puppsr.princeton.edu (marty ryba)
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Subject: Re: NASA Headline News for 08/29/89 (Forwarded)
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Date: 29 Aug 89 18:00:00 GMT
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yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:

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>                           NASA Headline News
>Tuesday, August 29, 1989                       Audio:202-755-1788
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>This is NASA Headline News for Tuesday, August 29..........

>Two Cornell University astronomers announced that they have 
>discovered a galaxy in the making.  The giant hydrogen cloud was 
>accidentally found by the pair last spring while they adjusted 
>the giant optical telescope at an observatory in Arecibo, Puerto 
           ^^^^^^^
It's a *radio* telescope, dammit!!!!!!!!!!

>Rico.  The galaxy, which is said to be ten times larger than the 
>Milky Way, contains no stars and is not visible by optical 
>telescopes.  Rather, the hydrogen cloud produces radio signals 
>like those that would be emitted if a galaxy were there.   
>Astronomers will not be able to verify the existence of the 
>possible galaxy until next spring when it should again be 
>detectable from Earth.

>---------------------------------------------------------------
>These reports are filed daily Monday through Friday at 12 noon, 
>Eastern time.
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>A service of the Internal Communications Branch, (LPC), NASA 
>Headquarters.

I hope this kind of screw-up isn't indicative of the quality of people they
use for PR!

I know the people involved (Riccardo Giovannelli and Martha Haynes).  They
are very much radioastronomy types; the 300-m Arecibo radiotelescope is a
wonderful instrument (I use it constantly) that I feel gets too little respect.
(flame off -- thrrrrrup!) :-)

Marty Ryba (slave physics grad student)
They don't care if I exist, let alone what my opinions are!
marty@puppsr.princeton.edu
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