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RE: virus: WW is profoundly sad with this news.......
« Reply #1 on: 2005-01-23 01:54:24 » |
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[Blunderov] Condolences. They are going to build some other telescopes
though. Best Regards.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part2/section-5.html
B.03 What new telescopes/instruments are being built?
Optical/Infrared Telescopes (nighttime):
Now actually under construction:
16.4 Very Large Telescope Cerro Paranal, Chile
(quartet of 8.2-m telescopes)
<URL:http://www.hq.eso.org/projects/vlt/>
11.0 Hobby-Eberly Telescope, Mt. Fowlkes, Texas
(spectroscopy only)
<URL:http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/het/het.html>
<URL:http://www.astro.psu.edu/het/>
8.0 Gemini North Mauna Kea, Hawaii
8.0 Gemini South Cerro Pachon, Chile
<URL:http://www.gemini.edu/>
8.2 Subaru (JNLT) Mauna Kea, Hawaii
<URL:http://www.naoj.org/>
6.5 MMT Mt. Hopkins, Arizona
(replace current six mirrors with single one; see B.01)
<URL:http://sculptor.as.arizona.edu/foltz/www/mmt.html>
2.2 SOFIA NASA
(included because it will be an airborne observatory)
<URL:http://sofia.arc.nasa.gov/>
Others likely to start soon:
Large Binocular Telescope, (Italy; U. Arizona), pair of 8-m
telescopes, Mt. Graham, Arizona
<URL:http://lbtwww.arcetri.astro.it/>
Canary Islands Large Telescope Canary Islands, Spain, 10 m segmented
mirror
<URL:http//www.iac.es/10m/uk10m.html>
Magellan (Carnegie Institution Observatories), 6.5 m, Las Campanas
<URL:http//medusa.as.arizona.edu/mlab/mag.html>
Radio telescopes under construction in design stages:
Submillimeter Array, (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), six 8-m
dishes at Mauna Kea
<URL:http//sma2.harvard.edu/index.html>
Millimeter Array (MMA) (NRAO)
<URL:http//www.mma.nrao.edu/
Green Bank Telescope (NRAO)
<URL:http//www.gb.nrao.edu/GBT/GBT.html>
X-ray:
Astro-E (ISAS)
<URL:http//www.astro.isas.ac.jp/xray/mission/astroe/>
High-Throughput X-Ray Spectroscopy Mission (ESA)
<URL:http//astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/xmm.html>
Gamma-ray:
INTEGRAL (ESA)
<URL:
http://astro.estec.esa.nl/SA-general/Projects/Integral/integral.html
>
Neutrino:
Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA)
<URL:http//amanda.berkeley.edu/>
Deep Undersea Muon and Neutrino Detection (DUMAND)
<URL:http//www.phys.washington.edu/~dumand/>
Gravitational Waves:
LIGO, (US), 4 km path
<URL:http//www.ligo.caltech.edu/>
Virgo, (Italy), 3 km path
<URL:http//www.pi.infn.it/virgo/>
Walter Watts
Sent: 23 January 2005 04:38 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: virus: WW is profoundly sad with this news.......
WW is profoundly sad with this news.......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4197505.stm
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