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Arecibo
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Arecibo (ärəsē`bō), city (1990 pop. 93,385), N Puerto Rico, a port on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Rio Grande de Arecibo. It has rum distilleries and is the commercial and industrial center of a region that produces coffee, tobacco, sugarcane, and pineapples. An important radio-astronomy installation is nearby. Arecibo was founded in 1616.
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Last week scientists launched an attempt to find Soho using the 990ft- diameter radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Lost space probe found by world's biggest telescope by Frew, Callum / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
The project will then return to observatories in the Northern Hemisphere--fast to the largest radio telescope in the world, the 1,000-foot-diameter telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
E.T., phone Earth: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence goes ... by Larson, Elizabeth / Reason
From Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to the Atacama Desert of Chile, powerful optical and radio telescopes scan the distant heavens for planets and quasars, probing for clues to the origins of the universe and searching for signs of extraterrestrial life.
Signals from the cosmic frontier by Luxner, Larry / Americas (English Edition)
 
 
 
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