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GRENADA CARRIACOU

Issued: May 15, 2000.-
6 Values perforate
Kind: Sheetlet ( x values illustrated )
Printing method: offset
Width (mm): 156
Height (mm): 116

Description : World Stamp Expo 2000, Anaheim, California. Rocks in the Sky.

FOTON 12: Sept. 9, 1999, carried on board rocks that will be recovered after free return to Earth to study of remaining life forms after high temperature return. ESA experiment. Launched at Baikonour by Soyuz rocket.

SUB-SATELLITE: April 24, 1972, Launched during Apollo 16 mission to measure meteorites, magnetic fields, solar wind and all space particles.

NEAR: Feb. 16, 1996, Launched at KSC - NASA experiment for study of asteroid Eros.

EXPLORER 16: Dec. 16 1962, NASA satellite to study micrometeorites, launched by Scout rocket at Wallops Island Virginia.

ASTRO CHALLENGER experiment: preview mission of space telescope to study Halley’s comet, launched on Columbia after Challenger disaster.

GIOTTO ARIANE V 14: July 2, 1985, First scientific ESA probe

On the frame : July 1994 - Comet SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9 encounter giant planet JUPITER - BIG Crash. 9 rocks collided with atmosphere of Jupiter. The events are filmed by Hubble Space Telescope in Earth Orbit and by GALILEO during Solar system translation. Also IUE (ESA) - Ulysse, Voyager 2 are in action. This comet made holes as big as Earth in the giant gas planet Jupiter.

Values informations :
10100 GRC 1    1.50$ Foton
10100 GRC 2    1.50$ Sub-satellite
10100 GRC 3    1.50$ NEAR
10100 GRC 4    1.50$ Explorer 16
10100 GRC 5    1.50$ Astro Challenger
10100 GRC 6    1.50$ Giotto

Yvert  : 2750/2755
Michel : 3197/3202
Scott  : 2206

Stamp Designer : Alexandre Lollini

SPACE REVUE : 05 - 2001

Keyword(s) : #Deep space, #ESA, #LOLLINI (design), #Stones in the sky.

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