Palomar Telescope

place
1 mentions 1 recordings first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul ↑1 vs the 6 months before

Large telescope at Palomar Observatory, funded by Rockefeller

Trend

mentions per week · public audio 7d30d6M12M
1 · 28 Jul MarMayJunJulSepnow

Peak in the week of 28 Jul — 1 mentions across 1 series.

Moments

newest first · ▶ plays the moment
Alex MacdonaldFreakonomics Radio · 683. In the New Space Race, Who Makes the Rules? · 5:56 · 31 Jul
…And so when you do those calculations, we find that projects like the Palomar Telescope, which was essentially funded by John D. Rockefeller's wealth, or the Mount Wilson Observatory, which was essentially funded by Carnegie's wealth, these are in the hundreds of millions to low billions of dollars, depending how you do that adjustment.…
· Open transcript →
All 1 moments