Talk:Hypernova
History section: "February 1997" contradicts GRB 970508's own designation (May 8, 1997)
The History section currently reads:
- "In February 1997, Dutch-Italian satellite BeppoSAX was able to trace GRB 970508 to a faint galaxy roughly 6 billion light years away."
This is self-contradictory. GRB designations encode their detection date: "970508" means year 1997, month 05 (May), day 08. BeppoSAX could not have traced an event in February 1997 that did not occur until May 8, 1997.
What BeppoSAX localized in February 1997 was GRB 970228 (February 28, 1997) — the first GRB to have an optical afterglow identified. GRB 970508 was the next major BeppoSAX localization, in May 1997, and is notable for yielding the first spectroscopic redshift measurement of a GRB host galaxy. The article appears to have conflated these two distinct events.
The fix is straightforward: either change the date to May 1997, or change the GRB identifier to GRB 970228 depending on which event the cited source actually discusses.