<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Sample Letter to Congress<br class=""></span><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote type="cite" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Dear -------</p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m writing to encourage you to support efforts to resurrect the world’s leading radio/radar telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Since the collapse of the original instrument in December 2020, the U.S. has relinquished leadership in Arecibo’s research fields. they are key to planetary and national security, our understanding of climate change and our ability to study and understand the universe.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As a ------your job ------, I’ve received significant funding and opportunities for myself and students to pursue --------. Other scientists in your district/state have been similarly fortunate. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, since Arecibo’s collapse, the only choice for some of our projects now is to use a Chinese instruments which only receives radio signals. It has no transmission capacity, which among other things means that it cannot map asteroids and their orbits in detail. In fact, there is no instrument on the planet now which can compare to the former telescope’s detailed capabilities.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Attached please find the Position Paper on the Future of the Arecibo Observatory. It was prepared by an association of which I’m a member, the Arecibo Science Advocacy Partnership. It includes more than 300 scientists and others who advocate for the Observatory and the legendary science that has been done there, and, we trust, will be again.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your assistance in raising this issue, particularly with the appropriate Committees so that hearings can be scheduled.</p></blockquote></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;
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