TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 584 SUBJECT: GRB000301C, Optical Spectroscopy DATE: 00/03/05 02:01:45 GMT FROM: Mike Eracleous at PSU, Astro.Dept. M. Eracleous (Penn State), M. Shetrone (Mc Donald Obs.), S. Sigurdsson, P. Meszaros (Penn State), J. C. Wheeler, and L. Wang (U. Texas) on behalf of the Hobby-Eberly telescope GRB follow-up team: "We obtained a spectrum of GRB 000301C with the Low-Resolution Spectrograph on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope on March 4.410. The spectrum, which was taken under non-ideal weather and seeing conditions, covers the range 4100-8000 A. We detect no obvious emission or absorption features. The flux density per unit frequency interval (f-nu) appears to increase monotonically toward the red." This message may be quoted.