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Technology Stocks : IRID - Iridium World Communications IPO Announced! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marty Rubin who wrote (1882)	5/30/1999 9:40:00 PM
From: Marty Rubin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2693

just found this site, pretty cool: technoweenie.com everything in the enclosed is a quote (except the links in parenthesis, just in case the page is removed). enjoy! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Even though Iridium, the satellite communication venture is tanking...there is a really cool side effect from the whole thing. Those 60-something satellites up there have this weird knack of reflecting sunlight off themselves back towards earth around sunrise and sunset creating a funky flare in the sky that can be really bright... Use the links below and you can amaze your friends, be a hero to small children, or be feared by the small minded...You can tell people it's a shooting star, a super nova, or whatever else the uninformed may believe. How to Locate an Iridum Flare near you First: Get your location (Lat. and Long.) U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer) RealEstate3d.com (http://www.realestate3d.com/gps/) www.bcca.org (http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong.html) Use them at the site below. DLR/GSOC (http://www2.gsoc.dlr.de/scripts/satvis/detailform.asp) Copyright 1999 by Technoweenie.com ------------------------------------------------------------------