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Atlantis' five day mission will end on Friday, and both 100-ton vessels will disengage-the shuttle will return to Earth and Mir will remain in orbit...
...Mir is so big it's really kind of interesting to look at," says Robert P. Stefanik, director of the Oak Ridge Observatory, 30 miles away from Cambridge. "What you sometimes can see is the changing brightness, since as it moves, the panels reflect light in different ways relative to the earth...
...They're brighter than the brightest star in the sky," he said. "If you can see the stars, you can see Mir...
However, it is virtually "impossible" to discern the details of Mir's structure with the naked eye, says Alan M. MacRobert, associate editor of Sky & Telescope magazine...
Saturday: Look for Mir rising from the southwest at 7:58 p.m. It will rise to the zenith of the sky by 8:02 p.m., then disappear...