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Date: 04 Sep 2007 18:02:36
From: George
Subject: World's biggest digital camera to join asteroid search
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12588-worlds-biggest-digital-camera-to-join-asteroid-search.html

There is an interesting flash video of the MIT team discussing the camera
at the link above.

George






 
Date: 07 Sep 2007 01:45:26
From: Jack
Subject: Re: World's biggest digital camera to join asteroid search
On Sep 6, 7:56 pm, "myke" <m...@c.org > wrote:
> Interesting. Too bad the southern hemisphere is quite devoid of projects of
> this nature. There
> is still plenty of sky that isn't being watched for NEO asteroids.

Yes, to be complete we need similar telescopes in southern Africa and
Chile.

For the time being, amateurs can still make a few discoveries until
the situation is corrected.



 
Date: 06 Sep 2007 17:56:10
From: myke
Subject: Re: World's biggest digital camera to join asteroid search
Interesting. Too bad the southern hemisphere is quite devoid of projects of
this nature. There
is still plenty of sky that isn't being watched for NEO asteroids.

> http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12588-worlds-biggest-digital-camera-to-join-asteroid-search.html
>
> There is an interesting flash video of the MIT team discussing the camera
> at the link above.
>
> George
>