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GCN Circular 385

Subject
Refined BeppoSAX-WFC position of GRB990712
Date
1999-07-12T22:18:24Z (25 years ago)
From
Filippo Frontera at ITESRE CNR <filippo@tesre.bo.cnr.it>
Filippo Frontera, on behalf of the BeppoSAX Mission Scientist Luigi Piro,
report:

On July 5, 16:43:02 UT  a GRB (GRB990712) was detected
simultaneously by the GRBM and WFC of BeppoSAX.

The refined WFC position of GB990712 is:
R.A.(2000)=337.9568
DEC(2000)= -73.4066
The error radius is now of 2'.

Due to Sun constraints BeppoSAX cannot perform a follow-on observation
with the NFIs.
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