trandolph@cougar.DEC (01/11/85)
>>Did anyone notice this one? In the "Mission Report" at the >beginning >of the film, the monolith is said to have been dug up in >1999 in the >Sea of Tranquillity, and is known as the "Tycho >monolith". > If so, someone needs a lunar map. Without looking it up, I can only say that Tycho is well south and west of the Sea or Tranquillity (is it Mare Cognitum? someone get a map!) >I seem to remember that the Monolith was originally found at Clavius and >called something like the Clavius Anomaly. Please correct me if I'm >wrong. (This is the movie 2001 that I'm refering to). > > Brett Slocum > > Slocum @ HI-MULTICS (arpa-net) > ihnp4!umn-cs!hi-csc!slocum (uucp) Well, in the novel 2001, the monolith was found in the crater Tycho, because of it's abnormal magnetic field. Hence, it was called Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One (TMA-1)... In fact, I believe the monolith found by Dave Bowman was christened TMA-2... T.F.Randolph UUCP: ...{allegra,amd,decvax,ihnp4,nsc,ucbvax}! decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-cougar!trandolph USnail: DEC, Mail stop LMO2/E01, 111 Locke Drive, Marlboro, MA 01752
rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) (01/15/85)
The monolith in 2001 was indeed found at Tycho, being christened Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1, or TMA-1, as another poster stated. The reason someone remembered Clavius, is that Clavius was the crater where the lunar base was located, from which the expedition was sent via lunar rover to the Tycho site. The "reason" given for having the monolith at Tycho was that the prominent "rays" surrounding Tycho make it a very prominent lunar landmark. Clavius happens to be the nearst big landmark to Tycho, so that is where the base was placed (I believe Clavius is the largest crater on the moon, at least on the earth side.) Bob Schleicher ihuxk!rs55611