TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6698 SUBJECT: GRB 070802: VLT redshift DATE: 07/08/02 10:22:41 GMT FROM: Daniele Malesani at Niels Bohr Inst,Dark Cosmology Center J.X. Prochaska (UCO/Lick), C.C. Thoene, D. Malesani, J.P.U. Fynbo, P.M. Vreeswijk (DARK), report: We observed the candidate afterglow of GRB 070802 (Barthelmy et al., GCN 6692; Berger et al., GCN 6695) with the ESO VLT + FORS2. A 30-min spectrum was acquired starting on Aug 2.378 UT. From the detection of several Fe lines, we measure z=2.45. We acknoweldge excellent support from the VLT staff, in particular Alain Smette.