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The collapse of the Arecibo telescope is now inevitable. On November 19, the National Science Foundation, which oversees the observatory, announced the evacuation, and demolition, of what remains ...
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The Arecibo Telescope was a 305 m (1,000 ft) spherical reflector radio telescope built into a natural sinkhole at the Arecibo Observatory located near Arecibo, Puerto Rico. A cable-mount steerable receiver and several radar transmitters for emitting signals were mounted 150 m (492 ft) above the dish .
The trouble at Arecibo began this August, when one of the auxiliary cables supporting the receiver platform slipped out of its socket atop Tower 4, one of the telescope's main support struts.
The observatory also includes a smaller radio telescope, a LIDAR facility, and a visitor center, which remained operational after the telescope's collapse. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The asteroid 4337 Arecibo is named after the observatory by Steven J. Ostro , in recognition of the observatory's contributions to the characterization of Solar System bodies.
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The video shared on Facebook, however, does not show any damage caused by either of those aftershocks. Each of the clips in the montage circulated days, months or years before the date of the post.