As well as being amateur built, the detector was the worlds only interferometric model and was based on an original design by Rube Goldberg, Honorary Health and Building Surveyor of Hog's Wallow County, Arkansas.
Built at the ASNSW property "Wiruna", at an altitude of 1007 metres, the detector relied on the impact of neutrinos in a natural, biodegradable medium, which generates radio waves in the far ultraviolet.
The intention was to focus these waves through four carefully spaced resonating steel cylinders. This quadruple amplitude was then passed through a high-pass correlator and then into a computer, which has been modified to analyse this correlated information and subsequently convert the data into readable graphs.
However, gravitational lensing of the neutrino stream during last years' partial Solar eclipse smashed into the sound boards attached to the steel cylinders and set up sympathetic vibrations which spread through and decayed the entire structure.
In anticipation of end-of-millennium neutrino maxima, the detector has been re-built in re-enforced concrete as a binocular.
The image above shows the new Neutrino Detector being built, by members of the ASNSW at their Dark Sky Observing Site, "Wiruna".