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Freshly painted Arecibo Observatory returns to work, spies object associated with meteor showers
December 26, 2007After receiving its first fresh, full coat of paint in more than 40 years, Arecibo Observatory made its first observation in more than six months at 6:36 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8.
The giant paint job was critical for ensuring the observatory's safety and structural integrity.
Jean-Luc Margot, Cornell assistant professor of astronomy, and Jon Giorgini of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., are studying Phaethon and other asteroids that have trajectories strongly affected by sunlight, sun shape and general relativity effects. Mike Nolan, an Arecibo staff scientist, conducted the Dec. 8 observation; Lance Benner of JPL leads the radar investigation of Phaethon.
Asteroid orbits are influenced by the absorption and re-emission of solar energy -- or the so-called Yarkovsky effect. These changes to the asteroidal motion will be quantified with the Arecibo radar measurements to understand the properties of near-Earth asteroids. This is one of dozens of projects now under way at the observatory.
The six-month painting project -- the first time the Arecibo platform and focal-point structure has received a thorough painting -- ended in November. Since then a skeletal crew of observatory staff worked around-the-clock to bring the 1,000-foot radio telescope and the planetary radar back to astronomical life.
Now the observatory is fully functional, with all motion, electronic, transmitting and receiving, and computing systems operating.
"It is ready to return to the task of carrying out the scientific observations for the many thousands of hours of approved research programs that will keep the telescope very busy for the next several years," said Robert Brown, director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, a national research center operated by Cornell under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
Cornell University
Arecibo joins global network to create 6,000-mile telescope
On May 22, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico joined other telescopes in North America, South America, Europe and Africa in simultaneously observing the same targets, simulating a telescope more than 6,800 miles (almost 11,000 kilometers) in diameter.
Arecibo telescope finds critical ingredients for the soup of life in a galaxy far, far away
Astronomers from Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have detected for the first time the molecules methanimine and hydrogen cyanide - two ingredients that build life-forming amino acids - in a galaxy some 250 million light years away.
Neutron stars can be more massive, while black holes are more rare, Arecibo Observatory finds
Neutron stars and black holes aren't all they've been thought to be. In fact, neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed, and it is more difficult to form black holes, according to new research developed by using the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Light Gives Asteroids Spin
Astronomers have observed an asteroid change the rate at which it spins for the first time, and shown that this is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never before seen
Researchers using Arecibo Telescope discover never-before-seen pulsar blasts in Crab Nebula
Astronomers and physicists using the Cornell-managed Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico have discovered radio interpulses from the Crab Nebula pulsar that feature never-before-seen radio emission spectra. This leads scientists to speculate this could be the first cosmic object with a third magnetic pole.
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