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Gemini South Site Preparation Begins (1Sep94)
(from NOAO HIGHLIGHTS!, NOAO Newsletter No. 39, 1 September 1994)

The Gemini Board visited Cerro Pachon on 21 May and were able to see that
major site preparation work had already begun for the southern Gemini
telescope.  The primary reason for this early start on Cerro Pachon, which
will be the second of the two Gemini sites to be fully developed, is to
obtain test borings of the subsurface material in order to design the
telescope pier and foundations.  The service access road to the summit of
Cerro Pachon from the Quebrada San Carlos has been completed.  The first
Gemini employee  to be stationed in Chile, Paul Gillette, arrived in La
Serena with his  family on 6 July.  Paul will provide local supervision and
co-ordination of work in Chile on behalf of the Gemini project.  Further
details will  appear in the various reports by the Gemini project.


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     No, this is not another Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact, but the start
     of work at Cerro Pachon to level the site in preparation for
     construction of Gemini South.

Malcolm Smith

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