June 22, 2007

New Telescopes Kept Off Mountaintop

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

A Hawaii judge has handed a further legal setback to the University of Hawaii and its efforts to manage science on top of Mauna Kea, the premier site in the United States for astronomical observatories.

This month, the state court judge, Glenn S. Hara, denied the university's request to reconsider his January order, in which he reversed a state board's decision to allow the construction of six additional telescopes on top of the mountain. Mauna Kea already has 13 working telescopes,

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