RSS Builder by B!Soft http://www.naic.edu/aorss/ AORSS is the nerv center for the latest up to date news for the Arecibo Observatory. en-us Edgardo Cruz All rights reserved 2004(c) http://www.naic.edu/aorss/ http://www.naic.edu/%7Eastro/aobsmall_ofict.gif 2008-02-13 http://www.naic.edu/~pradar/asteroids/2001SN263/ http://www.naic.edu/~pradar/asteroids/2001SN263/ Mike Nolan These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. The resolution is 75m (250 feet) per pixel. Because the moons are rotating more slowly than the larger "primary", they appear narrower to the radar, which measures distance and speed. Arecibo transmitted 500 000 Watts toward the asteroid, but the echo power received with Arecibo's ultra-sensitive detectors and processed into these images totals less than a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a watt. Arecibo is both the world's most powerful radar transmitter and the world's most sensitive radio receiver. 2008-01-14 http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan08/Arecibo.methanimine.html http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan08/Arecibo.methanimine.html Lauren Gold 2008-01-11 http://pressoffice.cornell.edu/Jan08/arecibo.pulsar.shtml Blaine Friedlander 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. Paulo Freire, an astronomer from the observatory, will present his research at the American Astronomical Society national meeting in Austin on Jan. 11. 2008-05-23 Kristine Yun http://www.expres-eu.org/TERENA08_science.html Dwingeloo, the Netherlands (23 May 2008) - Yesterday, members of the EXPReS project (Express Prudoction Real-time e-VLBI Service) conducted a live demostration of the first ever real-time, electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) observation to simultaneously use telescopes in Africa, Europe, North America and South America. 2008-05-23 Kristine Yun http://www.expres-eu.org/TERENA08_networking.html Telescopes in Chile, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Sweden simultaneously observed quasar 3C454.3 and additional targets and streamed data to the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE). There the data was correlated in real-time, and results were transmitted to Bruges, Belgium, as part of a live demonstration at the TERENA Networking Conference 2008.