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   PR # 41186
   Optical and ROSAT observations clearly show that the radio-luminous
   quasar 3C254 is embedded in a dense intracluster medium (ICM). Such
   an ICM would possess a cluster cooling flow with a mass deposition
   rate of 1000 solar masses per year. As such, this system may be
   similar to IRASP09104+4109 but at a higher redshift. We propose ASCA
   observations in order to detect and measure the associated cluster
   iron line and thus determine the metallicity. This would be the most
   distant cluster for which the metallicity has been measured and would
   produce strong constraints on cluster evolution models.
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