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GB971227

ATel #2; R. Rutledge
on 28 Dec 1997; 04:43 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Gamma-Ray Bursts
Credential Certification: rutledge@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de

Subjects: Gamma Ray, Gamma-Ray Burst

The following message was emailed to me this evening by Walter Lewin at MIT.
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A GRB (GB971227, Bacodine trigger 6546) has been detected by BeppoSAX GRBM and WFC at 8:23:06 UT.

Coordinates from WFC are:
RA(2000)=194.373
Dec(2000)=59.27
The event was detected when the satellite was in a not optimal attitude configuration, with an estimated error radius of about 10'.

Luigi Piro
on behalf of the BeppoSAX team
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Luigi Piro | E-mail:
Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale | piro@alpha1.ias.rm.cnr.it
C.N.R. | SAX program: saxsci@alpha1.ias.rm.cnr.it
Via Fosso del Cavaliere | phone: -39-6-4993-4007
I-00133 Roma | phone BeppoSAX center: -39-6-4079-6393
Italy | fax(CNR) : -39-6-20660188
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