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Cosmic Call messages beamed to nearby stars from Yevpatoria

Name: Cosmic Call messages beamed to nearby stars from Yevpatoria
Start: 1999
Location: Yevpatoria, Ukraine

When: 1999
Where: Yevpatoria, Ukraine
Sources: 2 public sources

The RT-70 radio telescope near Yevpatoria that sent the Cosmic Call messages Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In the summer of 1999 the Cosmic Call project broadcast deliberate messages toward nearby stars from the RT-70 radio telescope near Yevpatoria, Ukraine. Canadian astrophysicists Yvan Dutil and Stephane Dumas designed its main coded message; a second set followed in 2003.

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OfficialAPOD: 2009 July 12 - A Cosmic Call to Nearby Stars (opens in a new tab)NASA Science (Astronomy Picture of the Day) / 2009-07-12
OtherThe Dutil-Dumas message (introduction) (opens in a new tab)The Universe of Discourse (Mark Dominus) / 2015-08-06

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