Effelsberg Radio Telescope - Europe's largest completely steerable radio telescope

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Official sources: http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/public/eff_d.html
Unofficial sources: http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0012608

Building Name: Effelsberg Radio Telescope
Native Name: Radioteleskop Effelsberg
Other Names:
Address: Effelsberg
City: Bad Münstereifel
Postal Code: 53902
State/Province: Nordrhein-Westfalen
Country: Germany
Official Building Website URL:
Skyscrapers.com (Emporis.info) URL:
Architect:
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words): Effelsberg Radio Telescope was from 1971 until the Mid of Ninties world's largest completely steerable radio telescope (since the inaugauration of the new radio telescope in Green Bank, USA it is world's second largest steerable radio telescope).
Its dish has a diametre of 100 metres!

Heights--
- antenna:
- spire:
- roof: 50 metres
- top floor:
- other heights:

diameter of dish: 100 metres

Current Building Status (Built, Proposed, Canceled, Destroyed, etc...): Built

Construction Dates--
- started: 1968
- finished: 1971
- destroyed:


Above ground floors:
Below ground floors:
Floor-to-floor height:
Gross Floor area:
Elevator count:
Unit count: 1

Structure Type(s): Other
Building Use(s): Science
Building Style(s):
Building Materials: Steel
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City Name: Bad Münstereifel
Native Name:
State/Province: Nordrhein-Westfalen
Country: Germany
Population: 19007
Population Source & Year: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_M%C3%BCnstereifel (2004)
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