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Arecibo Telescope Collapse Forensic Report
August 11, 2022
Senior Associate Pierre Ghisbain observing the debris from the Arecibo telescope collapse.
Thornton Tomasetti
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It took just seconds for the 900-ton instrument platform at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to come crashing down into the 305-meter-wide dish, destroying the iconic radio telescope. A Thornton Tomasetti team of forensic engineers worked to determine the cause of the failure. Our findings were released by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in August 2022.
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