The Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are a group of independent astronomical research facilities and large telescope observatories that are located at the...
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Mauna Kea (/ˌmɔːnə ˈkeɪə, ˌmaʊnə -/, Hawaiian: [ˈmɐwnə ˈkɛjə]; abbreviation for Mauna a Wākea) is an inactive shield volcano on the island of Hawaiʻi...
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Opposition to the Mauna Kea Observatories has existed since the first telescope was built in the late 1960s. Originally part of research begun by Gerard...
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Keck Observatory is an astronomical observatory with two telescopes at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the...
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Thirty Meter Telescope protests (category Astronomical observatories in Hawaii)
chosen site out of 5 proposals. While opposition against the observatories on Mauna Kea has been ongoing since the first telescope, built by the University...
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Thirty Meter Telescope (redirect from TMT Observatory Corporation)
proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawai'i. The TMT would become the largest visible-light telescope on Mauna Kea. Scientists have been...
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The Mauna Kea Trail, also known as the Humuʻula Trail, is a hiking route leading from the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy to the summit of...
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from Hilo to Kailua-Kona and access to the slopes of Mauna Loa and the Mauna Kea Observatories. The mile marker 0 is posted in Hilo on the traffic signal...
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is a list of the highest astronomical observatories in the world, considering only ground-based observatories and ordered by elevation above mean sea...
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Kaho'olawe and its subsequent bombing, the construction of the Mauna Kea Observatories, the Red Hill water crisis caused by the US Navy's mismanagement...
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Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere Mauna Kea Observatories Mims III, Forest M. (2012). Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory: Fifty Years of Monitoring the Atmosphere...
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that of its neighbor, Mauna Kea. Lava eruptions from Mauna Loa are silica-poor and very fluid, and tend to be non-explosive. Mauna Loa has likely been erupting...
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of the telescopes at the Mauna Kea Observatories sustained minor damage, primarily Kecks 1 and 2 at the W. M. Keck Observatory, and the Canada–France–Hawaii...
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Major optical observatories include Mauna Kea Observatory and Kitt Peak National Observatory in the US, Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in Spain, and...
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alongside the 15-meter (49 ft) James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) at Mauna Kea Observatories. Beginning in 1986, it was engaged in submillimeter astronomy of...
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with numerous telescopes positioned on the summit of Mauna Kea at the Mauna Kea Observatories, where atmospheric clarity is excellent and little light...
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Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (category Astronomical observatories in Hawaii)
the summit of Mauna Kea mountain on Hawaii's Big Island at an altitude of 4,204 meters (13,793 feet), part of the Mauna Kea Observatory. Operational since...
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It was first observed on 13 October 2015, by astronomers at the Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii. Based on its discovery date near Halloween and the letters...
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Subaru Telescope (category Astronomical observatories in Hawaii)
(320 in) telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. It is named after the open star cluster...
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for the telescopes and other instruments that comprise the Mauna Kea Observatory atop Mauna Kea, on Hawaiʻi island. A few rustic cabins named Hale Pōhaku...
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Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology. Taosi Astronomical Observatory, Xiangfen County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, China...
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Hawaii. Hawaiian cultural organizations have objected to the observatories on Mauna Kea as sacrilegious, spoiling their god's home and destroying the...
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James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (category Astronomical observatories in Hawaii)
submillimetre-wavelength radio telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, US. The telescope is near the summit of Mauna Kea at 13,425 feet (4,092 m). Its primary...
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primarily observed at the Mauna Kea Observatories on the island of Hawaiʻi; it was first discovered at the Gemini Observatory and was further identified...
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North telescope of the Mauna Kea Observatories as well as the 4.0-m reflector of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Valetudo has a diameter...
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the largest optical-infrared observatory in the Southern Hemisphere; worldwide, it is second to the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. The Very Large Telescope...
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(612911) 2004 XR190 (category Discoveries by the Mauna Kea Observatories)
astronomers with the Canada–France Ecliptic Plane Survey at the Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii, United States. It is the largest known highly inclined...
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UH88 (category Astronomical observatories in Hawaii)
members of the local astronomical community—is situated at the Mauna Kea Observatories and operated by the University's Institute for Astronomy. It was...
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Doso, a language of Nigeria Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization, Iran Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii Münchener Kammerorchester, Munich chamber orchestra IATA...
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with Hawaiian culture and history, astronomy (particularly at the Mauna Kea Observatories), and the overlap between the two. ʻImiloa includes a 120-seat...
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