Observations
from the ERBS were also used to determine the effects of human activities
(such as burning fossil fuels and the use of CFCs) and natural occurrences
(such as volcanic eruptions) on the Earth's radiation balance.
Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "estimates," and variations of same
and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties which could
cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

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"The auroras of Earth and Saturn both are driven by shock waves in
the solar wind , and induced electric fields," said Crary, a senior
research scientist in SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division
and a Cassini co-Investigator. The company also
owns Ball Aerospace + Technologies Corp. Ball
Corporation employs more than 13,500 people and reported 2004 sales of
$5.4 billion . Key risks and uncertainties are summarized in the
company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, especially in
Exhibit 99.

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"One big surprise was that the magnetic
field imbedded in the solar wind plays a smaller role at Saturn.
For more information contact Joe Fohn, 210-522-4630 , or
jfohn@swri. BOULDER, Colo.
Although the ERBS continued to return data from the SAGE II and ERBE
instruments, newer spacecraft missions are producing improved data, making the
funding for the mission unjustifiable.

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Solar wind observations upstream of Saturn relied primarily on the
Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS), developed by an international team
headed by Dr.

Ball Aerospace Celebrates 21 Years of Ozone Research

Taylor, president and chief executive officer of Ball Aerospace +
Technologies Corp. These chemicals were found harmful to the
ozone based, in part, on the wealth of data the ERBS returned on the chemistry
and motions of the Earth's upper troposphere and stratosphere .

ionosphere troposphere

C., Ball Aerospace +
Technologies Corp."
The ERBS was part of NASA's three-satellite Earth Radiation Budget
Experiment (ERBE), designed to investigate how energy from the sun is absorbed
and re-emitted by the Earth.

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For the latest images and information about the
Cassini-Huygens mission , visit http://saturn.
"ERBS delivered tremendous scientific value over its lifespan," says David
L., which develops sensors, spacecraft,
systems and components for government and commercial markets .

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Near
Saturn, the solar wind's magnetic field is rarely northward or
southward, and its Earth-like role is not evident.

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The spacecraft also carried the European Space
Agency's (ESA ) Huygens probe, which recently descended to the surface
of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.org.

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The resulting measurements confirmed that, like
Earth, Saturn's magnetosphere is actively driven by the solar wind. But like the Earth,
observations from Cassini show dramatic changes in the aurora that
were directly driven by solar wind shocks. Cassini, launched in
1997, carries 12 scientific instruments to image the saturnian system
at infrared, ultraviolet and visible wavelengths and with radar, and
to sample directly the charged particle, dust, neutral gas and plasma
wave environments.nasa.

The ERBS
was officially retired Oct.

Forward-Looking Statements
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ccmc equilibria

In a paper published in the February 17 issue of the journal
Nature, a team of scientists led by Dr."
The Earth's aurora is very sensitive to the direction of the solar
wind's magnetic field; when the solar wind field points southward, it
can interconnect with the mainly northward Earth's magnetic field,
allowing the solar wind to affect its magnetosphere directly. David Young of SwRI. The Earth Radiation Budget
Satellite (ERBS) was launched in 1984 on the Space Shuttle Challenger as the
first spacecraft specifically designed to be launched by the Shuttle.

Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) is a supplier of metal and plastic packaging
products, primarily for the beverage and food industries.

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At Earth, the auroral particles can originate both in the solar
wind and in the Earth's atmosphere.nasa.gov.

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The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future
events or otherwise.

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Saturn's Aurora Surprises Team Led By SwRI

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Business Editors/Technology Writers/Science Writers

SAN ANTONIO----Scientists have long
known that energetic bursts of charged particles create bright auroras
in the upper atmosphere of the Earth's polar regions and also in the
polar regions of Jupiter and Saturn. As a result,
new ozone-friendly technologies were developed for air conditioning,
refrigeration and industrial uses.

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jpl. This process of absorption and re-radiation is
one of the principal drivers of the Earth's weather patterns.

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SwRI researchers are also active on
Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem , Composite Infrared Spectrometer
and Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer teams. The
spacecraft is expected to drift in space until it disintegrates as it
re-enters the Earth's atmosphere in approximately 18 years.

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The ozone studies for which the ERBS provided data helped to motivate an
international community to develop the Montreal Protocol Agreement, resulting
in the virtual elimination of CFCs .sec.

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At Jupiter, the energization is derived mainly from planetary
rotation, while the particles originate primarily in the atmosphere of
the planet and its moons (principally Io), with the solar wind playing
an apparently minor role.
Cassini-Huygens is a cooperative mission of NASA, ESA and the
Italian Space Agency. recently celebrated the retirement of one of the
longest-running spacecraft missions to date. The ERBS spacecraft
raised the bar for on-orbit performance.

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"Its return on investment , calculating length of service
and technical achievement combined, must be enormous. Factors that might affect our packaging segments
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Frank Crary , a physicist at
Southwest Research Institute(R) (SwRI(R)) in San Antonio, Texas,
reports that Saturn's aurora responds to the solar wind in a
surprisingly different way from that of either Earth or Jupiter.
However, while Earth's auroras are strongly influenced by the
direction of the solar -wind magnetic field, Saturn's appear to be
independent of that orientation. 14 after all remaining fuel was vented. These filings are available at our
Web site and at http://www.

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The team used the Hubble Space Telescope and instruments on board
NASA's Cassini spacecraft to measure solar wind interactions during a
one-month period in 2004 as Cassini approached Saturn for a multi-year
orbital mission. NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope is a cooperative program with the European Space
Agency and is operated by the Space Telescope Science Institute in
Baltimore.gov and
http://www. 8.

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, operated by the
California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission
for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.gov/cassini

SwRI is an independent , nonprofit, applied research and
development organization based in San Antonio, with more than 2 ,800
employees and an annual research volume of more than $399 million.

pmode orbs

They then gain energy indirectly
from the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetic
field, with most of the acceleration occurring at relatively low
altitudes of a few thousand kilometers above the aurora. Ball
Aerospace was responsible for the spacecraft bus and the Stratospheric Aerosol
Gas Experiment (SAGE II), one of the three instruments onboard. In 1984, the
ERBS was expected to have a two-year design life , but the mission continued to
return useful scientific data about the Earth's ozone layer for more than two
decades. SAGE II and the Earth Radiation Budget
Experiment instruments onboard the ERBS were turned off on Sept. Factors that might affect aerospace segment
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