TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 5708 SUBJECT: GRB 061007 - Faulkes Telescope South Afterglow Confirmation DATE: 06/10/07 11:11:28 GMT FROM: Carole Mundell at ARI, JMU,Liverpool C.G. Mundell (Liverpool JMU), C. Guidorzi (Univ Bicocca & INAF-OAB), A. Gomboc (University of Ljubljana), C.J. Mottram, A. Melandri, I.A. Steele, R.J. Smith, A. Monfardini, D. Carter, S. Kobayashi, D. Bersier, (Liverpool JMU), E. Rol, P. O'Brien, N. Bannister (Leicester) report: "The 2-m Faulkes Telescope South (Siding Spring, Australia) robotically followed up GRB061007 (SWIFT trigger 232683; Schady et al. GCN #5705) 2.28 min after the GRB trigger time. We find a fading source at the position reported by Rykoff et al. (GCN #5706) and Schady et al. (GCN # 5705) and confirm it to be the afterglow of GRB 061007. Observations and analysis are ongoing."