Hello everyone on AstroNet<div><br></div><div>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:</div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://www.jaxa.jp/event/akatsuki/index_e.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">http://www.jaxa.jp/event/akatsuki/index_e.html</a></span></div>
<div>The deadline is January 10, 2010 (Japan Standard Time).</div><div><br></div><div>Just for your information, "akatsuki" means dawn in Japanese.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Jun</div><div><br></div>
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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".</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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."</div>
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Mr. Jun Takahashi<br>............................................................................<br>Visiting Student<br>South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)<br>P.O. Box 9, Observatory, 7935, Cape Town<br>South Africa<br>
<a href="http://www.saao.ac.za/">http://www.saao.ac.za/</a><br>.............................................................................<br>PhD Student / Research Assistant<br>Center for Planetary Science (CPS),<br>Graduate School of Science, Kobe University<br>
1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501<br>Japan<br><a href="http://www.cps-jp.org/">http://www.cps-jp.org/</a><br>.............................................................................<br><br>
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