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SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES

Issued: Jun 26, 2000.-
6 Values perforate
Kind: First day cover F.D.C.
Printing method: offset
Width (mm): 162
Height (mm): 121

Description : Anaheim Stamp Expo, Planets of twilight.
Sheetlet of 6 stamps. Voyager 2 near the moon Europa.

For the USA World Expo in July 2000, we represented the main probes having studied the giant “JUPITER” and its main satellites.

— CALISTO and the comet Hale Bopp which was deflected from its trajectory by Jupiter.

— GALILEO, NASA probe which has been orbiting through the Jupiter system since October 1989.

— ULYSSE - ESA-NASA solar observatory which used Jupiter to increase its speed and twist its trajectory.

— PIONEER 11. departure from KSC on April 5, 1973, crossed the Jupiter System in December 1974 before diving towards Saturn.

— VOYAGER 1 - Departure from KSC on September 6, 1977, crosses the Asteroid belt and transmits marvelous images of Jupiter matched only recently by the Galileo probe.

- PIONEER 10. - Launched from KSC on March 3, 1972, crosses the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter on July 16, 1972 - Crosses the Jupiter satellite system and completes the mission of Pioneer 11.

— In the frame of the Sheetlet - The giant JUPITER and its moons Europa, Ganymede, Io and Calisto, celestial objects already listed by Galileo during the creation of his astronomical telescope and which bear the title of “Galilean Satellites”.

the 1st day cover of issue of the sheetlet:

“Planets of Twilight”

illustrated with the exact drawing which was used to create the stamp, bearing the 1st day postmark of Kingstown + signatures of the two authors: Alexandre and Bernard Lollini

Values informations :
10100 SVG 41    1.50$  Comet Hale-Bopp, Callisto
10100 SVG 42    1.50$  Galileo probe
10100 SVG 43    1.50$  Ulysses probe
10100 SVG 44    1.50$  Pioneer 11
10100 SVG 45    1.50$  Voyager 1
10100 SVG 46    1.50$  Pioneer 10

Yvert  : 4032/4037
Michel : 4928/4933
Scott  : 2791

Stamp Designer : Bernard et Alexandre Lollini

SPACE REVUE : 04 - 2001

Keyword(s) : #Deep space, #LOLLINI (design).

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