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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 13:49:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 13:49:07 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 07:23:40 EST
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Reply-To: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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In article <188@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:Slocum.CSCDA@HI-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
>From: Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA
>
>>Did anyone notice this one?  In the "Mission Report" at the >beginning
>of the film, the monolith is said to have been dug up in >1999 in the
>Sea of Tranquillity, and is known as the "Tycho >monolith".
>
>I seem to remember that the Monolith was originally found at Clavius and
>called something like the Clavius Anomaly.  Please correct me if I'm
>wrong.  (This is the movie 2001 that I'm refering to).
>
>      Brett Slocum

In '2001', the monolith found on the Moon was designated Tycho Magnetic 
Anomaly 1, or TMA-1 (it was originally detected because it had an
enrmous magnetic field).  The monolith found near Jupiter was called TMA-2,
although (as someone in the book noted) it was nowhere near Tycho and was not
magnetic.  However, I can see the name mutating over the course of 11 years.  I
imagine the Monolith would become the subject of near-legendary tales, like
those of the bodies from the crashed flying saucer in a hangar in Texas...

Oh, Clavius was the location of the base that Heywood Floyd was traveling to at
the beginning of the film.  (It's amazing how much a man can change in 11
years... by 2010, he looked just like Roy Scheider! :-) )  That may be 
what you remember.

David D. Levine  (...decvax!tektronix!orca!davidl)          [UUCP]
                 (orca!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet)  [ARPA]