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NASA Orbital Debris Observatory or NODO was 3 meter (9.8 foot) liquid metal
Liquid metal

Liquid metal may refer to* One of the five metallic elements liquid at or near room temperature, namely:**mercury ,**francium ,**caesium ,...
 diameter aperture
Aperture

In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of ray that come to a focus in the ....
 telescope and astronomical survey funded and operated by NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 from 1995 to 2002 in New Mexico
New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
, USA. It was a zenith or transit telescope pointed straight up, that used 20 narrowband filters to catalog space debris
Space debris

Space debris or orbital debris, also called space junk and space waste, are the objects in orbit around Earth created by humans, and that no longer serve any useful purpose....
 in earth orbit. When it was retired, some of the components were used in the 6 m (19 foot) Large Zenith Telescope
Large Zenith Telescope

The Large Zenith Telescope is a 6.0 m diameter liquid mirror telescope located in the University of British Columbia's Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, about 70km east of Vancouver....
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The telescope itself is sometimes called the NASA-LMT, for liquid metal telescope.






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NASA Orbital Debris Observatory or NODO was 3 meter (9.8 foot) liquid metal
Liquid metal

Liquid metal may refer to* One of the five metallic elements liquid at or near room temperature, namely:**mercury ,**francium ,**caesium ,...
 diameter aperture
Aperture

In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of ray that come to a focus in the ....
 telescope and astronomical survey funded and operated by NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 from 1995 to 2002 in New Mexico
New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
, USA. It was a zenith or transit telescope pointed straight up, that used 20 narrowband filters to catalog space debris
Space debris

Space debris or orbital debris, also called space junk and space waste, are the objects in orbit around Earth created by humans, and that no longer serve any useful purpose....
 in earth orbit. When it was retired, some of the components were used in the 6 m (19 foot) Large Zenith Telescope
Large Zenith Telescope

The Large Zenith Telescope is a 6.0 m diameter liquid mirror telescope located in the University of British Columbia's Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, about 70km east of Vancouver....
.

The telescope itself is sometimes called the NASA-LMT, for liquid metal telescope. Also the Observatory itself also used a 32cm Schmidt CDT telescope. The telescope was also used for the UBC-NASA Multi-Narrowband survey.

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