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This could help......or not....

Wow!

7 hours later, I get to read +250 posts just to reach the last page!!!

Anyway, I tried to figure the hint by myself, but I haven't produced any firm evidence of what or where the hint is pointing to. I thought that sharing my thoughts might bring out other leads that could help figuring out the clue.

I took everyone's advice that the first two numbers were longtitude and latitude. I saw that all 3 numbers were decimeled and had 6 numbers after the decimal, which probably means they are related.

So, we have long and we have lat. Both are "titude"s.

So if we have the "X" and "Y" part of the geographic coordinates, we can also add a 3rd dimension, the "Z". which faces upward and downwards from earth's center.

and that is called ALTITUDE.

So I thought, maybe there's something above that coordinates, at that 3rd number hight?

I searched for things, specificlly satellites, aprox 342 miles, km or other distance unit above that point in Boston or over any other part above Boston.

I haven't found anything useful, but I did find this interesting thing:

http://www.meade.com/gallery/09a.html
Quote:
350 miles above Boston: Ron Dantowitz of Hayden Planetarium, Boston, Mass., used C-Sat satellite tracking software in conjunction with a Meade 12" LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain optical system to obtain this remarkable video image of Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Space Station Mir on November 16, 1995. At the time of the exposure the docked Atlantis-Mir were 350 miles above Boston and traveling at a speed of 17,100 miles per hour. The outline drawing at right points out specific features of the two spacecraft, including such details as the Shuttle's rudder and wing-silhouette. Although Mir's solar panels are only about one meter (39") wide, they are clearly resolved by the telescope's 12" optics, even at a distance of 350 miles. C-Sat software works through a personal computer to locate and track automatically over 3500 Earth satellites with any Meade LX200 model.
The problem was "on November 16, 1995", which is quite out of date (or maybe not?).

If it is where the hint wanted to lead us to, then we have some relation to the space station Mir, but again, I fear I'm just misleading people.

Please prove me wrong (as awkward as it might sound).
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