There is hope a new radio telescope can be built in the area. 'It's just a tragic situation,' he saud of the telescope's demise. But Dixon said Thursday that never happened. Jones said it will take about two more weeks to cut up the antenna for scrap.īob Dixon, Big Ear assistant director, previously said OSU intended to sell the telescope if possible. He said the only snags were the recent rains and the surrounding mud from the new golf course that's in the works. 'It went just like I expected,' Jones said of the project he began April 22. Jones, 76, said he's never demolished anything that large before. It was dismantled in six sections, each weighing more than 25 tons. The telescope was a large, grid-like antenna 105 feet high and 300 feet long. Jones, a 30-year excavation and demolition expert who was in charge of tearing down Big Ear.

'It's quite a project,' said Delaware resident Clarence E.R. Much to the chagrin of Big Ear enthusiasts, that cleared the way for dismantling the telescope and putting in a 381-lot development and a nine-hole golf course that is an expansion of the Dornoch Golf Club, formerly the Delaware Golf Club. 31 and the land was sold to New Green Highlands Development Ltd.

The telescope was on property owned by Green Highlands Ltd., and was leased by Ohio State University. 23S near the Methodist Theological School in Ohio since 1963. As big as three football fields, it has been off U.S. Nicknamed Big Ear, the telescope was the world's first to search for extraterrestrial radio signals. The last pieces of Ohio's only radio telescope came crashing down Thursday. Ohio State University Radio Observatory - Last remains of Big Ear removedĮditorial corrections will be shown in red.

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