[AstroNet] Your Message to Venus

[Jun Takahashi]

Hello everyone on AstroNet

I have met information about "Akatsuki" Message Campaign, in which your
message will be delivered to Venus through an orbiter which will be launched
by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) .   You can find more details
and send your message at:
http://www.jaxa.jp/event/akatsuki/index_e.html
The deadline is January 10, 2010 (Japan Standard Time).

Just for your information, "akatsuki" means dawn in Japanese.

Regards
Jun

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"Akatsuki" Message Campaign

JAXA would like to enhance people’s interest in space and the Earth by
holding a "message campaign" in which we invite people to send us messages
that will be printed in fine letters on an aluminum plate and placed aboard
the Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI".
We will accept messages both from Japan and overseas so that we can bind the
feelings and thoughts of everybody in the world into one, and inject it into
the orbit of Venus. Through this campaign, we would like to boost the
public’s knowledge about Japanese space science research activities in Japan
as well as abroad.
With the cooperation of the "International Year of Astronomy 2009 Japan
Committee," we would like to carry out the "message campaign" to collect
messages to be attached to the Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI."

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Mr. Jun Takahashi
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Visiting Student
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)
P.O. Box 9, Observatory, 7935, Cape Town
South Africa
http://www.saao.ac.za/
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PhD Student / Research Assistant
Center for Planetary Science (CPS),
Graduate School of Science, Kobe University
1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501
Japan
http://www.cps-jp.org/
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