The proximate causes of the collapse have been known for a while, including the most obvious and visible one, the failure of the zinc “spelter sockets” that were cast around the splayed ends ...
The proximate causes of the collapse have been known for a while, including the most obvious and visible one, the failure of the zinc “spelter sockets” that were cast around the splayed ends ...
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4 years after the giant Arecibo Observatory collapsed, we finally know what happenedin the telescope's cable spelter sockets. Unfortunately, this issue was not identified during the post-Maria inspection, which meant engineers hadn't considered the degradation of these mechanisms ...
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