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Nancy Neal
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-0045)
RELEASE: 02-196
"This is the big one that didn't get away," said George R.
Ricker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Cambridge, principal investigator for the international 20-
person HETE team. "HETE sent out a burst alert in 11 seconds
and then followed-up with an accurate location just 48
seconds later, while the bright gamma-ray emission was still
in progress. HETE's prompt localization has resulted in this
burst being by far the best-observed burst in the 30-year
history of gamma-ray burst astronomy."
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20021008heteburst.html
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