Independed Prediction from MIT
The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has published an independed prediction for the Varuna occultation:
Check the link for details.
Varuna.20081207 Occultation Dec 07, 2008
The prediction (2008 Nov 26) following the results taken from the analysis of 101 frames obtained at the Lowell 42-inch Telescope, du Pont Telescope, SMARTS 0.9m Telescope, and Swope Telescope.
There is no major path shift compared to the predictions by the Rio Group or Raoul Behrend.
Oliver