TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 5952 SUBJECT: GRB 061201: Magellan redshift of nearby galaxy DATE: 06/12/21 21:13:16 GMT FROM: Edo Berger at Carnegie Obs E. Berger (Carnegie) reports: "Starting on 2006 Dec. 21.07 UT we used LDSS3 on Magellan to obtain an 1800 sec spectrum of the galaxy located 17 arcsec NW of the optical afterglow of the short GRB 061201 (see also GCN #5884). This is the nearest bright galaxy (R~19 mag) to the GRB position. We detect several emission lines, which we identify as H-beta, [OIII], H-alpha, [NII], and [SII] at a redshift of z=0.111. At this redshift the projected offset of the burst is about 34 kpc, significantly smaller than about 1.9 Mpc relative to the center of Abell 995 (GCN #5944)."