X-ray Spectrometry of SN1987A

The Xray luminosity of SN1987A rapidly increased over the last four years, suchthat in a single 100 ks XMMNewton obervation spectra can be taken withexcellent counting statistics up to energies of 10 keV and more. In reference toour accepted 100 ksec AO5 observation another observation virgul1 year later willallow to study the time evolution of the shock conditions and abundance profilesof N, O, Fe and Ne with RGS. At high energies EPICpn can help to clarify theextremely low Fe abundance of 0.04, observed so far. Is the Fe completelyswallowed by the central compact object or is the emission from the innersections of the progenitor star still absorbed? Because of the high number ofcounts a sensitive search for pulses from the pulsar limited to high energy photons will be possible. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]