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Monday, January 1, 2001



Look in the sky,
it’s a bird, it’s a plane—
no, it’s the space station!


Star-Bulletin staff

The International Space Station will be visible eight times this month as it orbits Earth, according to information from the Bishop Museum.

The station will appear as a point of light -- as bright as a bright star -- moving steadily across the sky. The three brightest passes will be:

Bullet Sunday from 6:33 to 6:39 a.m. as it moves northeast from 10 degrees above the southwest horizon. Its highest elevation will be at 6:36 a.m., 87 degrees above the east-southeast horizon.

Bullet Jan. 9 from 6:02 to 6:05 a.m. as it moves north-northeast from 43 degrees above the horizon in the west. Its maximum altitude in the northwest will be at 6:02 a.m.

Bullet Jan. 31 from 6:01 to 6:05 a.m. the station will appear in the north and reach its highest point in the northeast at 6:02 a.m. before vanishing in the east-southeast.


ON THE 'NET

For more about the space station and other satellites, visit:
Bullet http://heavens-above.com
Bullet http://www.bester.com/satpasses.html
Bullet http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html




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