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Originally Posted by curious
Hi, i am looking for the title of a book i saw in a bookshop. I can't remember what the title was but it was a big book for amateurs. It was about astronomy and it had a section on a message that astronomers put inside a rocket. I don't know what rocket it was but the messages consisted of a drawing of a naked man and woman and also showed a drawing showing the earth to be the 3rd planet from the sun. If you know the title please inform me . Thanks for the help
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Well I don't know what the book is, but the "rocket" and "message" sounds very similar to the gold anodised plaque that the two Pioneer spacecraft carried from Earth in 1972 and 1973.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
There was a company in Melbourne who used to make replicas of the plaque for sale (for which I have one).