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Science 3 October 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5335, pp. 29 - 30
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5335.29b
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U.K. ASTRONOMY:
Staff Makes Bid to Privatize Observatory

Nigel Williams

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM--Earlier this year, the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) seemed headed for oblivion when it lost out in a contest with the Royal Observatory Edinburgh to become Britain's single Astronomy Technology Centre. But RGO's staff has since come up with a business plan to transform the observatory into a private institution that would build small, robotically controlled telescopes for the international market. On 8 October, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, which currently funds the two Royal Observatories, will decide whether to allow RGO to pursue this plan.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)