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                        PLANET ANOMALY ALERT
                              2004 #16
                      (issued 1-Oct, 14:15 UT)
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                 End of PLANET 2004 observing season



Dear Colleagues,

With effect from 30 September, PLANET has ceased observations at the end 
of an exciting 2004 Bulge season, during which we reported several
major headline news items on our homepage http://planet.iap.fr.
 
We hope that you appreciated our on-line presentation of PLANET data for
ongoing events.

However, none of our achievements would have been possible without the
numerous high-quality microlensing alerts provided by OGLE-III and MOA.
We would hereby like to use this opportunity to express our thanks to
the OGLE and MOA collaborations for setting up and managing their
observing campaigns and alert systems. In particular, we wish MOA every 
success with their new 1.8m telescope which will be operational soon 
(and look forward to the increased number of events from which we can select 
our targets).
 
We also benefited from several cordial exchanges with the MicroFUN
collaboration and look forward to interacting with all microlensing teams
again in 2005 Bulge season when PLANET will be back in action.
 
Bye for now,


The PLANET Collaboration:

Michael Albrow
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu
Dave Bennett
Stephane Brillant
John Caldwell
Hannes Calitz
Arnaud Cassan
Kem Cook
Christian Coutures
Martin Dominik
Dijana Dominis
Jadzia Donatowicz
Pascal Fouque
John Greenhill
Kym Hill
Matie Hoffman
Keith Horne
Uffe G. Jorgensen
Stephen Kane
Daniel Kubas
Chris Laws
Ralph Martin
Pieter Meintjes
John Menzies
Karen Pollard
Kailash Sahu
Christian Vinter
Joachim Wambsganss
Robert Watson
Andrew Williams

(in alphabetical order)