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Arecibo
[ ahr-uh-see-boh; Spanish ah-re-see-baw ]
noun
- a seaport in northern Puerto Rico.
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The year’s end brought one more tragedy with the collapse of the aging Arecibo observatory, leaving Earth a little more vulnerable to space rocks and astronomers wondering what’s next.
Today he’s a radio astronomer at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo.
He used Arecibo to help map the shapes and motions of near-Earth asteroids.
In 1990, Arecibo was being repaired, and so it was stuck staring at one spot on the sky.
If funding to rebuild Arecibo’s dish in full cannot be found, both she and Virkki hope that the site can keep participating in research in other ways.
We reached Arecibo, having to ford or ferry streams five times.
Thence the Alamo proceeded, August 29, to Arecibo, which port was reached on the same day.
On the rugged north side, where the ocean currents set to southward, there are no good anchorages between Arecibo and San Juan.
Yet town after town surrendered to these outposts until they were encamped before Arecibo, on the northern coast of the island.
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