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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-06-21T10:47:28'
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title: NASA officials have briefed the
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NASA officials have briefed the White House on a "major" Mars announcement to be made at a press conference next week. [Discovery.com reports that NASA may have found water,](http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000620/sp_mars.html) but we know that really they're going to announce the Phobos slamming into Earth thing.