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Article: STATE EYED FOR EXPERIMENT COSMIC RAYS COULD BE MEASURED IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- June 8, 2005
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Byline: Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News
The southeastern corner of Colorado may become the site of a huge global physics experiment, capturing and analyzing cosmic rays of unfathomable high energy.
An international consortium of scientists meeting in Paris Tuesday unanimously chose the region surrounding Lamar as the proposed Northern Hemisphere site for the 1,500-square-mile Pierre Auger Observatory.
The Colorado site would team with the nearly completed Southern Hemisphere observatory in Malargue, Argentina, to explore the mysteries of how the universe began.
The science involves "connecting the smallest particles (of the rays) ...