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The universe's past, in close up
Tucson :: AZ :: USA | 10 days ago
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If there were a Guinness world record for making telescope mirrors, Dean Ketelsen would likely win it. Colleagues boast that the one-time Iowa farm boy has ground and polished more square footage of optics than any human being alive. "It used to be a...
Tags: Giant Magellan Telescope, Dean Ketelsen, Chuck Steidel, Tucson, Extremely large telescope, Astronomy, Mauna Kea, Galaxy, Dobsonian telescope, Telescopes, W. M. Keck Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Technology Internet
Mauna Kea management plan advances
Hilo :: HI :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility The University of Hawaii Board of Regents approved two sub-plans for the management of Mauna Kea on Thursday, clearing the way for review by the state land board. The regents discussed components of the Mauna Kea Comprehensive Management Plan related...
Tags: Mauna Kea, managing plans, natural resources, land board, BLNR, kea managing, Hilo, Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii Route 200, Hawaii County Hawaii, Hawaii, Shield volcanoes
Hawaii company starts commercial maile farm
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility A Hawaii company is starting the state's first large-scale commercial maile farm on the slopes of Mauna Kea. Most of the maile used to make leis in the islands comes from outside Hawaii...Oahu-based Alii Pauahi Hawaiian Civic Club is starting the Big...
Tags: Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Honolulu, Maile, Environment, Shield volcanoes, Hawaii, Mauna Kea
Part of Big Island under wind advisory
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 17 days ago
Credibility The National Weather Service in Honolulu said a wind advisory is in effect for parts of the Big Island until 8 p.m. tonight. Strong trades with sustained wind speeds of 30 mph or higher with gusts up to 45 mph are expected today near South Point and...
Tags: Big Island, Hawaii County, Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii County Hawaii, Gale warning, Wind, Weather, Information technology management, Marketing, Spam, Charles Ponzi, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Confidence tricksters, Cybercrime, Electronic commerce, Social Issues, Mauna Kea, Thirty Meter Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Observatory, Telescopes, Astronomical observatories, Technology Internet, Underwater diving, Scuba diving, Disaster Accident
Big Island Vacations
The Big Island dubs itself Hawaii's Island of Adventure, and Big Island vacations can see you skiing one day and soaking up the sun at a tropical beach on another. The Big Island is a kaleidoscope of terrains and climates, displaying many kinds...
Tags: Kohala, big islands, Mauna Loa, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, Shield volcanoes, islands vacations, Hospitality Recreation, Mauna Kea, Kilauea Crater, islands getaways, travel, Hilo, Pakistan, travel deals, Lahore, Big Island Hawaii, Kￄﾫlauea
Isle-linked mission alters view of Earth's celestial neighbor
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility It's still very dry by terrestrial standards. "But that kind of water vapor could be used as a resource," he said. "It's getting to a level where they could think about using this soil and heating it up and driving off water vapor." It could be cooled...
Tags: moon, LCROSS, NASA Infrared Telescope, Honolulu, Exploration of the Moon, NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, Mauna Kea Observatory, Mauna Kea, Infrared, Telescopes, Cabeus, Technology Internet
Hawaii's Mauna Kea: Site Of The New 'TMT' Telescope...
The TMT (Thirty Meter (100 foot) Telescope) scheduled for completion on Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea Volcano in 2018 will have 9 times the area of any other telescope on earth making it able to view galaxies, early stars and verify...
Tags: Hawaii, Mauna Kea, TMT Telescope
Mauna Kea selected as construction site for world's most capable and advanced telescope
Hilo :: HI :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The decision has been made after careful evaluation and comparison between two outstanding candidate sites-Mauna Kea in Hawai and Cerro Armazones in Chile. When completed in 2018, the TMT will enable astronomers to detect and study light from the earliest...
Tags: Mauna Kea
Public speaks out on Mauna Kea management plan
Hilo :: HI :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Opponents have long charged the university is not the right entity to develop the plan because of the past record of mismanagement and damage to the mountain. UH President David McClain apologized to those who felt hurt by the university's actions before...
Tags: Mauna Kea, management plan
Big Island search underway fro missing glider pilot
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Coast Guard, Big Island Fire Department, Civil Air Patrol and Good Samaritans are searching today for a missing pilot who was last seen Friday flying a glider plane near the peaks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island. Friends and witnesses said...
Tags: Big Island Fire Department, Mauna Kea, glider plane, Dave Bigelo
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