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   52071
   The soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) appear to be related to young neutron
   stars in supernova remnants. They have characteristics which
   distinguish them quite clearly from the gamma-ray bursters, whose
   origin remains a mystery. Much of the breakthrough in understanding the
   SGRs has come from soft X-ray observations in general, and ASCA
   observations in particular. However, SGR1900+14, the 3rd of the three
   known SGRs, has never been observed by ASCA, although it is known to be
   a soft X-ray source from ROSAT HRI observations. We show how an ASCA
   observation could substantially advance our understanding of this SGR,
   and help to determine its relation to a peculiar IR source which it
   lies close to.
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