By Eric W. Weisstein September 4, 2006--Less than a year after the 43rd Mersenne prime was reported (MathWorld headline news: December 25, 2005), Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project organizer George Woltman is reporting in a Sep. 4 email to the GIMPS mailing list that a new Mersenne number has been flagged as prime and reported to the project's server. If verified, this would be t