On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:10:36 GMT, Florian
wrote:

My local TV news station reported this too. They didn't say where
to look. They didn't say the time to look. Somehow the media got
hold of blurb that the space station was going to be visible
and they're all repeating the same non-information junk. Yes, it's
going to be visible, as it is often, but without more specific
information such reports are useless.

It probably started with this press release from NASA about ISS viewing
possibilities:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004...s_visible.html

AP picked it up and wrote an article on it that included the link NASA
gave for getting details of sightings
(http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/isssightings), see for example:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._space_station

What the local papers and TV news will do with it after that cannot be
predicted, even by NASA.

Mike Simmons