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>>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".
>

If so, someone needs a lunar map. Without looking it up, I can only say
that Tycho is well south and west of the Sea or Tranquillity (is it Mare
Cognitum? someone get a map!)

>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
>
>          Slocum @ HI-MULTICS     (arpa-net)
>          ihnp4!umn-cs!hi-csc!slocum (uucp)

Well, in the novel 2001, the monolith was found in the crater Tycho, because
of it's abnormal magnetic field. Hence, it was called Tycho Magnetic Anomaly
One (TMA-1)...  In fact, I believe the monolith found by Dave Bowman was
christened TMA-2...

T.F.Randolph
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The monolith in 2001 was indeed found at Tycho, being christened
Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1, or TMA-1, as another poster stated.  The reason
someone remembered Clavius, is that Clavius was the crater where the lunar
base was located, from which the expedition was sent via lunar rover to the
Tycho site.  The "reason" given for having the monolith at Tycho was that
the prominent "rays" surrounding Tycho make it a very prominent lunar
landmark.  Clavius happens to be the nearst big landmark to Tycho, so that
is where the base was placed (I believe Clavius is the largest crater
on the moon, at least on the earth side.)

Bob Schleicher
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