[Moon-net] FW: [amateur-DSN] Fw: Lunar research opportunity

[Russ K2TXB]

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	From: amateur-DSN at yahoogroups.com
[mailto:amateur-DSN at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Iban Cardona
	Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:24 AM
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	Subject: [amateur-DSN] Fw: Lunar research opportunity
	
	

	
	----- Original Message ----- 
	From: "Dr. H. Paul Shuch" <n6tx at setileague.org
<mailto:n6tx%40setileague.org> >
	To: "Claudio" <clmaccon at libero.it <mailto:clmaccon%40libero.it> >
	Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:26 PM
	Subject: Argus: Lunar research opportunity
	
	> Argonauts,
	> As many of you are aware, the ESA's SMART-1 lunar probe is
scheduled to 
	> spiral down over the next three weeks, culminating in its
impacting the 
	> Lunar surface on 3 September 2006. During its descent through the 
	> Moon's tenuous atmosphere, our colleague Claudio Maccone has
proposed 
	> that as many of us as possible monitor its S-band and X-band
beacons, to 
	> analyze the nature of the Lunar atmosphere through sounding 
	> measurements. He has secured time on the 32 metre VLBI antenna in 
	> Medicina to support these measurements. I know several of you have
been 
	> doing Deep Space Network monitoring - now is your chance to make a

	> significant amateur contribution to science.
	> Claudio's research proposal to the Istituto di Radioastronomia
appears 
	> (in English) at <http://www.setileague.org/articles/maccone.pdf
<http://www.setileague.org/articles/maccone.pdf> >. 
	> Please take a look, and contact Claudio at the email address
listed 
	> above (with cc to me), if you are able to participate in this
important 
	> experiment. Thanks.
	> If any of you are in touch with other amateur groups (SARA, ERAC, 
	> AMSAT, etc.) that may be interested in monitoring SMART-1, please
feel 
	> free to cross-post this email to their various Lists.
	> 
	> -- 
	> H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D.
	> Executive Director Emeritus, The SETI League, Inc.
	> http://www.setileague.org <http://www.setileague.org>
n6tx at setileague.org <mailto:n6tx%40setileague.org> 
	> 
	> "We Know We're Not Alone!"
	>