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Subject: Urgent! TRMM Needs your action NOW!

Dear TRMM colleagues:

As you may already know, NASA is on the verge of deciding to end the TRMM 
satellite's mission prematurely. This decision may come within as little 
as a day or two. We can still attempt to head off this decision if we act 
NOW. Even if the decision is made, we can appeal for a reversal since it 
will take at least several weeks to implement the decision.

To have any chance at all of reversing the decision to terminate TRMM we 
need for you to fax letters (NOT EMAIL, NOT SNAIL MAIL) directly to three 
individuals, immediately (MONDAY OR TUESDAY AT THE LATEST):

1) Dr. Sean O'Keefe, Administrator, NASA
NASA Headquarters
Washington DC 20546-0001
Telephone: 1 202 358-1010
FAX: 202 358-2810

2) The Honorable Barbara A. Mikulski
Ranking Democrat, Appropriations Subcommittee on Veterans
Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies
Suite 709
Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-4654
FAX (202) 224-8858

3) The Honorable Sherwood L. Boehlert
Chairman, House Science Committee
2246 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-3223
202-225-3665
202-225-1891 (fax)

I am attaching my letters to these individuals. Feel free to use my 
letters as models. It does not matter whether your letter is perfect.
The goal is to make the point that the scientific community as a whole
is highly concerned, and to do this we need to have NUMEROUS letters going in 
to these key people. A rule of thumb in advocacy is that 10 hardcopy 
letters gets the attention of a representative. We should try for 50-100
letters!

Please forward this request to anyone else you think might be inclined to 
send letters. Don't forget your friends and relations can send letters! 
INTERNATIONAL COLLEAGUES, note that your letters are also valuable in this 
effort.

Please send an electronic version of your letters to the following list 
(email is ok for this part):

Robert.F.Adler@ nasa.gov
gasrar@ mail.hq.nasa.gov
a.v.diaz-1@ nasa.gov
orlando.figueroa-1@ nasa.gov
jkaye@ mail.hq.nasa.gov
dmccuist@ nasa.gov
mluther@ nasa.gov
sneeck@ mail.hq.nasa.gov
rkakar@ hq.nasa.gov

Thanks!
Bob