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Posted: Thursday, November 3rd, 2005 8:08 AM HST
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Mauna Kea one of the contenders in competition for super scope
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HONOLULU (AP) _ Mauna Kea on the Big Island is one of three sites in the running for a 750 (m) million dollar telescope still under development by a Canadian engineering firm.
Once completed, the Thirty-Meter Telescope will be three times bigger than the world's current largest optical and infrared telescopes, both on Mauna Kea. But that day is still a long way off.
Construction of the massive telescope isn't expected to begin until 2008 in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. And it likely won't be operational until 2015 or later.
That's according to Rolf-Peter Kudritzki -- the director of the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy.
Mexico and Chile are the world's other contenders in the drive to be home to the telescope being designed by international engineering firm Amec Dynamic Structures.
(Copyright 2005 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
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