MRO will be an optical interferometer, sited at 10,600 feet close to Socorro. More details are here . The New Mexico Tech Solar Racing Team, under the direction of Dr. Ken Minschwaner, had a good year. The team was one of only 29 teams, from a field of 60, to qualify for Sunrayce this year. They finished the 1425-mile course despite an accident which crippled the solar array.
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The Physics department was well represented at an international meeting on pulsar astronomy, held at Bonn, Germany in September 1999. Some photos are here . Spring Graduation Ceremony Held The 1998-1999 academic year finished with a graduation ceremony held on a typically beautiful spring day in Socorro. The physics department was proud to graduate 9 students with Bachelor's degrees, one with a Master's degree, and 3 with PhD degrees. More details and pictures are here .