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References for HST Information



Metrics:

Science Policy and HST productivity metrics (provided to 2003 HST-JWST Transition Panel)[Beckwith]

Science with HST - includes publications, citation rate [Beckwith]

Public Impact of HST (v1; 1999, revision in progress) [Christian, Kinney]

Science News Metric [Compiled by G. Davidson, Northrup Grumman]

  • 2003 Review: NASA produced 7.9% of world wide scientific results, 6.5% in Space Science = 1.4% HST, .8% Chandra
  • 2002 Review: NASA produced 7.2% of world wide scientific results, 3.8% Great Observatories = HST + Chandra +GRO

News: [Slides For 2003 OPO Review Committee]

  • Rougly 2800 news stories in 2003

Informal Education: [For 2003 OPO Advisory Board]

  • Slide Distribution – 1st generation chromes to ~130 planetariums
  • ViewSpace production & distribution ~100 CD based sites
    ~12 internet sites

Formal Education: [2002 STScI Annual Report, 2003 in progress] Amazing Space (online) reaches

  • 212 U.S. school districts, numerous home schoolers, and 126 colleges, including the New York City public schools and Princeton University.
  • Amazing Space materials were also packaged in a CD version, reaching classrooms without Internet connections.
  • Other materials (posters, lithographics, information packages) are distributed to various teacher organizations.

Outreach Website: [Internal Report]

  • Over 5 Million "page views" per month
  • Over 60 Million "hits" per month
  • About 1.2 Terabytes of images downloaded



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