From: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!mabgarstin Newsgroups: net.space Title: SAA Article-I.D.: watcgl.90 Posted: Mon Jan 3 13:11:32 1983 Received: Tue Jan 4 00:09:55 1983 I just got this super book for Christmas called, "The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual" (Ballantine Books, New York, $14.95, in U.S. $9.95). It is loaded, it has everything every good Russian spy would want to know about the space shuttle but was afraid to snoop around for. It has detailed layouts of the control panels, explanations on what it all means and how it operate it, it even goes through a step-by-step description on how to snuggle down in the seat of one of those neat birds, blow the tubes and get your tail off the pad, into LEO and back down again. Like, it is all there in full gory detail. What I'm writting about though is on one of the fold outs is a Mercator projection of terra-firma with the first 64 orbits of STS-3 drawn on it. In the middle of the south Atlantic is this hideously shaded blob entitled the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA). Now I know that this was discussed not too long ago but if memory serves me correctly I think I just glossed over the related articles with too much of the information-osmosis process in gear. Could some dear kind soul out there in net.land please refresh my dynamic memory on this topic and put me out of my misery. P.S.- Since I'm writting this in REAL-TIME errors abound, that one line above sould read ....with NOT too much of the information-osmosis.... happy space trails... MAB University of Waterloo