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Mills Cross Array
Location(s)Washington, D.C., District of Columbia
Wavelength22.2 MHz (13.5 m)
Telescope styleradio telescope Edit this on Wikidata

The Mills Cross Array, or the 96-acre antenna array, was a Mills Cross Telescope-style radio telescope located in Washington, D.C. in 1955. It was used by Bernard F. Burke and Kenneth Franklin to discover radio emission from Jupiter.[1]

References

  1. ^ "How One Night in a Field Changed Astronomy".