Subject: PLANET team Anomaly Alert: EROS 2000-BUL-5
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 19:38:38 +0200 (MET DST)

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		PLANET TEAM ANOMALY ALERT FOR EROS BLG-2000-5
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The PLANET collaboration has been performing intense photometric 
monitoring of the multiple-lens microlensing event EROS BLG-2000-5 
from five observing sites distributed in longitude.  This event, 
discovered by the EROS team and first noted to be anomalous by 
the MPS team, executed a fold caustic about 12 days ago at 
Heliocentric Julian Date (HJD) = 2,451,705.000 +/- 0.002 
(see earlier PLANET team alert and caustic characterization). 
Since then, we have reported the rise to its second caustic 
crossing, which the event is currently executing 
(see http://www.astro.rug.nl/~planet/EB2K005.html).

Here we report our current prediction for the crossing  
time of the trailing limb of the K giant source star 
over the caustic, namely:  HJD = 2,451,733.60 +/- 0.07, 
less than 12 hours from the date of this message.

Event:            EROS-2000-BUL-005
RA (J2000):         17:53:11.5 
Dec (J2000):       -30:55:35

The exceptional brightness, long duration, and prediction for the 
timing of the final limb crossing make this event especially  
favorable for spectroscopic observations, which are encouraged. 

PLANET continues to observe this event. 

Finding charts, previous alert information and updates can be found on the 
PLANET web site at http://www.astro.rug.nl/~planet. 

EROS information on this event can be found at the EROS alert web page at:
http://www-dapnia.cea.fr/Spp/Experiences/EROS/alertes.html. 

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