  We consider free algebraic actions of the additive group of complex numbers
on a complex vector space X embedded in the complex projective space. We find
an explicit formula for the map p that assigns to a generic point x in X the
Chow point of the closure of the orbit through x. The properties Hausdorff
quotient topology and proper action are equivalently characterized by the
closure of the image of p in the closed Chow variety.
