BigEar Destroyed



Big Ear Radio Telescope August 1977 as 50 thousand times more incoming energy that large Kraus-type radio telescope at Ohio State University, was dismantled in 1998 this telescope was famous for its early work in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Many results were published in The Astronomical Journal in a series of articles, charts and source catalogs known collectively as "the Ohio Survey" many of this has been superimposed like on an optical survey.
In late 1997, after almost 40 years of operation, the Ohio State University with its "Big Ear" telescope, ceased as observatory. The land on which the observatory was sitting (owned by the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio) was sold by them in 1983 to land developers who later claimed their rights to develop the land. The telescope was destroyed in early 1998. An adjacent 9-hole golf course was expanded into 18 holes and about 400 homes were planned for construction on the nearby land owned by those developers.

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