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To: BenLurkin

So what is its diameter/radius?


17 posted on 07/04/2016 10:55:49 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

It’s named the “Five-hundred-meters Aperture Spherical Telescope” or FAST. Like Aricebo, the dish is not steerable. Because it is fixed, staring straight up, it can only observe what Earth’s orbital rotations bring into view.


18 posted on 07/04/2016 11:09:54 AM PDT by earglasses (I was blind, and now I hear...)
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