Addition to NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: August 5, 1999

Media Advisory m99-160a

Summary:

NASA COVERAGE OF LAST SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE MILLENNIUM

NASA will provide spectacular pictures of the August 11 total

solar eclipse - the last in this millennium - from both Earth and
a million miles out in space. Coverage includes a live eclipse
feed from Amasya Turkey from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. EDT on Aug.
11; live shots with solar researcher on NASA TV on August 11 from
6:15 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. EDT; and an audio eclipse experiment
involving ham radio operators from around the world, and a global
gravity experiment.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage

202/358-1547.

For full text of note to editors, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1999/n99-043.txt

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