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Subject: Re: Gold disk sent out of solar system - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 22:28:53 EDT
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tekcad!paulp    Aug 30 19:11:00 1983

The directions of the lines, and the dot dashes along them, point
to pulsars as seen from the earth.  The binary information relates
their rotational periods in terms of the 21 cm line of neutral
hydrogen.

Presuming the spin down rates of pulsars are constant, or that the
perturbing factors can be determined, the finder can identify the
pulsars, regress their proper motions, and find the solar system.

				    Paul Pomes

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