Aug 2, 2008
Drowning out the cosmos
In the late 1930's Grote Reber, a radio amateur in Wheaton, Illinois, built the first purpose-built radio telescope: a nine metre dish with a state of the art radio receiver.
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A PBS place in an MTV world
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another Observatory too important not to protect from developers in North America
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/drao/index_... 1st the Dunlop University of Toronto Richmond Hill York Region GTA Ontario now Re: proposed residential land development near the White Lake Observatory: Every resident of the RDOS should be extremely alarmed at the possibility that ill-considered and short sighted land development will ... http://www.topix.net/world/canada/2008/08/ano... |
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