Western Australia: Aboriginal Community Names CSIRO Telescope

Western Australia: Aboriginal Community Names CSIRO Telescope   The first six antennas of CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope in Western Australia will today receive names in the local Wajarri language.   The names have been chosen by the Wajarri people and will be bestowed by representatives of seven Aboriginal families at a ceremony at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, about 315 km northeast of Geraldton.   Name plaques will be fixed to each antenna. Further naming will take...

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