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The Big Ear completed its first sky survey for extraterrestrial radio sources in the early 1970s . On August 15, 1977 , The Big Ear recorded its greatest success when an interesting radio signal was received from the portion of the sky that the telescope was aimed at. This event, chronicled in text books and well known in astrological circles, is known as "The WOW!" signal, so named for the notation made by a volunteer at the site on the date of the event. No other such signal was recorded. The Big Ear was noted in the 1995 Guinness Book Of World Records as being the Radio Telescope which had worked on the SETI project for the longest period of time. The radio telescope was disassembled in 1998 when developers who had purchased the site from Ohio Wesleyan University began construction of an expansion of a golf course next to the site. The Big Ear was parodied in bestselling game '''' by the presence of a large radio telescope of the same name in the desert region. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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