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Thu Mar 25 21:10:48 1982
South Atlantic Anomaly
I used to know someone at the NASA Goddard tracking center who could
have told you about this in great detail. I have to work from
(faulty) memory.

The South Atlantic Anomaly is an area lying roughly between Bermuda
and Ascension Island. Within this area, satellites don't work right,
the earth's magnetic field does strange and upredictable things,
spacecraft radios receive odd things, and so on. Goddard would try to
avoid either sending commands to satellites or having them be
executed when the bird was within this region.

Any Bermuda Triangle fans out there??

			Paul