Grove Creek Observatory

Coordinates: 33°49′47″S 149°22′01″E / 33.8296°S 149.367°E / -33.8296; 149.367
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Grove Creek Observatory
Observatory code E16 Edit this on Wikidata
LocationNew South Wales, AUS
Coordinates33°49′47″S 149°22′01″E / 33.8296°S 149.367°E / -33.8296; 149.367
Established1985[1]
Websitewww.gco.org.au Edit this at Wikidata
Grove Creek Observatory is located in Australia
Grove Creek Observatory
Location of Grove Creek Observatory

Grove Creek Observatory is an

Sydney, Australia
. It is run by Jim Lynch and Greg Ford.

It is a non-profit research facility which also hosts one of the few privately owned radio telescopes in Australia. The Small Radio Telescope (SRT) is owned and operated by Andrew Mattingly and Greg Ford of Sydney and operates at the 21 cm (1420Mhz) spin flip line of atomic hydrogen. It is extensively used for southern hemisphere research by the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics in Kiel, Germany.[3]

Asteroid

M.P.C. 68450).[4] And in 2010, a small asteroid named 2010 AL30 was discovered there.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Grove Creek Observatory, Non-Profit Organization, Trunkey Creek". epage.at. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b "217603 Grove Creek (2008 JW20)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  3. ^ "HiFASS - The Small Radio Telescope at Grove Creek". www.aussiesky.net. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  4. ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  5. ^ Malik, Tariq (12 January 2010). "Weird Object Zooming by Earth Wednesday is Likely an Asteroid". Space.com. Retrieved 29 January 2022.

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