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In article <C0uvAy.C5I.1@cs.cmu.edu> TCS1%DCC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Tom Schruefer) writes:
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>>With the successful deploy of TDRS-F, STS-54's other primary payload bean
>>operations. During orbital night, the Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer will tke
>>measurements of the x-ray background of the solar system's interstellar
>>medium. This information will be used to answer questions about a nearb
>>super nova that scientists believe occurred about 300,000 years ago.
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>   Does anyone know which star they are talking about ???
>
This *may* have to do with the Geminga object, recently revealed by
Rosat and GRO to be a pulsar with an age of about 300,000 years.  The
best estimate of the distance is around 100 light-years, so is quite
close in astronomical terms.


Richard J. Edgar  (edgar@wisp4.physics.wisc.edu)
University of Wisconsin--Madison, Department of Physics
"It all depends, of course, upon whether or not it
depends or not, of course, if you take my meaning"