(PUEBLA – PHYS.ORG) «Astronomers have become the latest victims of Mexico’s violence with activities at two observatories being reduced because their staff suffered crimes while traveling to the remote mountain sites, researchers said Thursday.
The problems occurred near the Alfonso Serrano Large Millimeter Telescope, or LMT, in the central Mexico state of Puebla. It is the world’s largest single-dish steerable millimeter-wavelength telescope and is jointly run by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Mexico’s national institute of astrophysics.
LMT «has reduced its scientific activities to a minimum level due to the security problems in the region surrounding the telescope,» said university spokesman Ed Blaguszewski.»
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