September 2007 Extra
This issue we present the second part of our "Audience with Sir Bernard Lovell" bringing the story up to the start of October 1957. We also have Ask an Astronomer and get an update on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
- September 2007 Extra MP3: Download the whole show (low and high bandwidth versions)
- The Mars Rovers (JPL)
- Opportunity Begins Sustained Exploration Inside Crater
- Mars Rover Flight Director's Update 7 September 2007
An Audience with Sir Bernard Lovell (Part 2 of 3)
In August 2007 Jodrell Bank hosted "An Audience with Sir Bernard Lovell". In this second part of the series, Sir Bernard talks to Tim O'Brien about the beginnings of Jodrell Bank and the construction of the Mark I telescope.
- An Audience with Sir Bernard Lovell (Part 2 of 3) MP3: Download this segment individually (low and high bandwidth versions)
- John Rylands Library Jodrell Bank Archive
- The History of the Lovell Telescope (Jodrell Bank Observatory)
- The building of the worlds' first giant radio telescope (Jodrell Bank Observatory)
- Professor Blackett biography (Wikipedia)
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster (Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics)
- Tacoma Narrows video clip (MPEG, 684 kB)
- Tacoma Narrows video clip (YouTube - no audio)
Ask an astronomer - Railways, comets and space-time
Nick puts listener questions to Tim O'Brien. We find out if the local railways cause interference for the Lovell Telescope, what comets are, and try to get our heads around general relativity and gravity.
- Ask an astronomer - Railways, comets and space-time MP3: Download this segment individually (low and high bandwidth versions)
- Pantograph (Wikipedia)
- Comets (Windows to the Universe)
- The Oort Cloud (David Jewitt, IfA Hawaii)
- The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud (nineplanets.org)
- SOHO movie of two comets plunging into the solar corona (QT, 190 kB)
- SOHO movie of two comets plunging into the solar corona (MPEG, 189 kB)
- Best Of SOHO Movies: Comets
Show Credits
| Interview: | Tim O'Brien and Sir Bernard Lovell |
| Ask an Astronomer: | Nick Rattenbury and Tim O'Brien |
| Presenters: | David Ault, Nick Rattenbury and Stuart Lowe |
| Challenge setter: | David Ault |
| Editors: | Stuart Lowe and Nick Rattenbury |
| Cover Art: | Sir Bernard Lovell and the Lovell Telescope CREDIT: Jodrell Bank Observatory with digital additions by Stuart Lowe |
| Website: | Stuart Lowe |
