1. Document of the Asteroid Catcher B-612: Copyright c 2000 Japan Spaceguard Association, all rights reserved.
2. Program codes of the Asteroid Catcher B-612: Copyright c 2000 Hiroshi Kaneda, all rights reserved.
3. Illustration used in the Asteroid Catcher B-612: Copyright c 2000 Akemi Ogura, all rights reserved.
4. The Image character used in the manual of Asteroid Catcher B-612: Copyright c 2000 Misao Sato, all rights reserved.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Mr. Hiroshi Kaneda, Ms. Akemi Ogura and Mr. Misao Sato for their help to this asteroid detection software and this guide. We also thank to Mr. Tadashi Tsuji for his help to the English translation of this guide. We are particularly obliged to Japan Space Forum for their tremendous contribution to the project. Star catalogs used in the program derive from GSC-ACT and Tycho-2. Asteroid orbital data derive from the Minor Planet Center. We are most grateful to NASA, ESA, and MPC for the provision of these data.

Health issue

You should be careful about your eye strains. Please rest your eyes from time to time.

Conditions of use

You must agree to all the following conditions in order to use this software. If you cannot agree to any one of the conditions you may not use this software and must delete this software. In using this software it is assumed that there exists an agreement between Japan Spaceguard Association (Program provider) and the user (Program user) as follows:

• Program provider holds all the copyrights and agrees to allow users who agree to these terms to use this software free of charge irrespective of whether its purpose is commercial or non-commercial. If the user duplicates this software and provides the copy to a third party user the distributor must obey the following conditions for re-distribution as set out separately by the program provider.
• The provider agrees to the user to modify this software for personal uses, but the provider prohibits the distribution of the modified software for use by a third party.
• The provider does not provide any guarantee of any kind with respect to this software.
• The provider is under no obligation including modification/improvement of this software.
• The provider is not legally responsible for any damage, real and assumed, direct or indirect whatsoever.
• The user must not attempt with this software reverse engineering, reverse assembling, reverse compilation and other illegal actions and is not allowed to encourage third party users to do so.
• The user cannot modify these terms (copyright, conditions of use, redistribution of this software) anywhere in the software including data files or on associated documentation.

Redistribution of this software

Redistribution of this software is allowed only when the redistributing user agrees to the following terms.

• Redistribution is allowed without alteration to the file name and contents. However, renaming of the file name due to the availability of operating system may be accepted.
• Terms of conditions specified here are not modified at the time of redistribution. The user should not expect any gain of any kind from redistributing this software.
• However, it does not include the cost of postage and others required for redistribution. The provider will not accept any responsibility whatsoever arising from the redistribution.

Members of BATTeRS

• Atsuo Asami
• David Asher
• Tetsuharu Fuse
• Nariyasu Hashimoto
• Syuzo Isobe
• Syuichi Nakano
• Kota Nishiyama
• Yoshiaki Ohshima
• Noritsugu Takahashi
• Jun-ya Terazono
• Hiroaki Umehara
• Takeshi Urata
• Makoto Yoshikawa

The Japan Spaceguard Association

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