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E-ELT Site Chosen

On 26 April 2010, the ESO Council selected Cerro Armazones as the site for the planned 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope. Cerro Armazones is an isolated mountain at 3060 metres altitude in the central part of Chile's Atacama Desert, some 130 kilometres south of the town of Antofagasta and about 20 kilometres away from Cerro Paranal, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope.

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  • Originally Aired April 26, 2010
  • Runtime 80 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-Y
  • Created April 27, 2010 by
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Name Type Role
Lars Lindberg Christensen Writer
Herbert Zodet Director