NEAR observed, Texas

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Observed NEAR from several miles WSW of Columbus, Texas (29 deg 40.06 min N,
96 deg 38.97 min W). This was as far west as I had to go to get out from
under clouds which kept the Houston area apparently clouded out for the
event. 

Observed naked-eye, and at no time did NEAR get any brighter than 3rd
magnitude. I haven't reduced the tape recording (with WWV) yet, but if my
memory serves me right, I started to "notice" something some seconds before
the 12:37am glint time I was expecting. My skies were quite clear,
certainly 5-6th mag naked eye. 


Paul L. Sventek
psventek@hotmail.com
sventek@ibm.net
paul@kelman.com

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