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Subject: What are these stars/planets?
Message-ID: <16653@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 21:40:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 21:40:00 1984
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From:  Ross Finlayson 

Early this morning (3am PST), after returning from a late night hack attack,
I noticed two very bright stars/planets in the south-eastern sky. They
seemed to have the same (apparent) brightness. The objects were very close
together (slightly less than the width of my index finger at arms length);
it was this fact, along with their similar brightness, that made them
so noticeable. I couldn't find them on a star chart, so I presume that at
least one of them is a planet.

Could someone identify these? They're almost impossible to miss.

	Ross.

ps. They weren't moving, so they can't have been planes, satellites or UFOs!