Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!davidl From: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: 2010 glitch Message-ID: <1293@orca.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 13:49:07 EST Article-I.D.: orca.1293 Posted: Wed Jan 9 13:49:07 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 07:23:40 EST References: <188@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 28 Summary: 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]