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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which uses this unique 2.5-meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory, has been rated first among the world’s observatories in terms of scientific impact on astronomy.
Number One again!
New Mexico’s Apache Point Observatory is the home of the 2.5-meter telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). A recent independent analysis of observatories with the highest scientific impact on astronomy has ranked the SDSS first among the world’s observatories, a position it has now held for three of the last four years.
Apache Point Observatory, located in the Sacramento Mountains in southern New Mexico, is operated by New Mexico State University for the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC). NMSU is a member of ARC and a participant in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Professor of Astronomy Kurt Anderson is the site director for the observatory.
The most recent impact analysis (Madrid, J.P., and Maccetto, F.D., 2006, “High- Impact Astronomical Observatories,” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 38, p. 1286) ranks the world’s observatories according to the level of citations to papers based on data from the observatories and published in the scientific literature during 2004. Citations are a measure of a scientific paper’s importance.
SDSS had a significant lead over the European Southern Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, ranked second, third, and fourth, respectively.