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NASA agents, composed of Americans and French, will work "in close collaboration with some twenty Senegalese. (…) We expect a lot (from this mission) in terms of training and capacity building. We say (so) to NASA: welcome to Senegal, country of Téranga (hospitality), "said the minister at a press conference.
The New Horizons mission concerns the" fastest probe ever sent To the planet Pluto and whose arrival is scheduled on 1 and January 2019, informed Marc Buie, NASA's American agent.
The asteroid MU69, discovered in 2014, will pass to this date before a star of this planetary system. That's why several observation missions are mobilized from South America to Africa, which makes it "a global project," he added.
These studies conducted on the planet Pluto will give "an extraordinary opportunity to scientists "from many Senegalese institutions (ISRA, UCAD, ANACIM, SONATEL, …) to live a new experience in space science, said Maram Kairé, technical coordinator of the National Committee of New Horizons mission organization.
The selection of these scientists was made on "rather selective criteria", he stressed before stating that they will have to form 21 groups and that the places selected in Senegal for the observations are in number four regions (Thiès, Louga, Saint-Louis and Diourbel),
Although "it's a 58-point map" that was targeted, the observations, the possibility of which will depend only on "the state of the m It's not open to the public. This is an observation among scientists not to miss the right information to collect, "warned Mr. Kairé specialist astronomy and technical adviser MESRI.
Noting that a joint work was done" to achieve logistical results, Tulinabo Mushingi, Senegal's ambassador to Senegal, described the task accomplished with the Senegalese side as "starry collaboration."
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