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A center for the study of radio astronomy has been established in Greenbank, W. Va., patterned after a proposal co-authored by Donald H. Menzel, Director of the Harvard College Observatory.
Associated Universities, the group which developed the Brookhaven Electron Accelerator, is sponsoring the project, which was financed by the National Science Foundation. The Foundation's grant was "one of the largest they have ever given," according to Menzel.
Large radio antennae "looking like big dishes" will swing around in the sky to carry on observations, Menzel said. He added that several projects have already been planned, one of which now under way will record sounds from planets, particularly Jupiter.
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