| LC control no. | sh 00005584 |
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| Topical heading | Very Large Telescope (Chile) |
| Variant(s) | ESO Very Large Telescope (Chile) ESO VLT (Chile) European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (Chile) European Southern Observatory VLT (Chile) Very Large Telescope VLT (Chile) |
| See also | Large astronomical telescopes--Chile |
| Found in | Work cat.: 00027996: VLT Opening Symposium (1999 : Antofagasta, Chile) From extrasolar planets to cosmology, c2000. Dict. astron. (Very Large Telescope (VLT): due to be finished in 1998) European Southern Observatory Web site, May 4, 2000 (Very Large Telescope (VLT); ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory will be the world's largest and most advanced optical telescope. The ESO Very Large Telescope will consist of four 8-meter telescopes which can work independently or in combined mode. The Paranal Observatory is located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile.) McGraw-Hill encyc. sci. tech.: v. 12, p. 461 (the Very Large Telescope being developed by the European Southern Observatory for a site in Chile is planned to consist of four 315-in. (8-m) telescopes with spincast mirrors.) |
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