Concept for a second Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Antarctica

• Main Authors: Roger Angel A, Jon Lawrence B, John Storey B
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Webb; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.71.5880; http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/Antbib/Angel_GMTpaper.pdf

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