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Jodrell Bank Observatory

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Jodrell Bank Observatory , observatory for radio astronomy located at Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, England. Founded in 1945 on the site of a botanical experiment station, it is administered by the Univ. of Manchester. Originally known as the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, it was officially the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories from 1966 to 1999. The principal instrument is one of the world's largest fully steerable radio antennas, the Lovell Telescope, with an altazimuth-mounted parabolic dish 250 ft (76 m) in diameter. In addition, the facility has smaller altazimuth paraboloid and axis paraboloid antennas. Research programs include studies of galactic structure, angular sizes and structure of radio sources, polarization of radio sources, quasars, pulsars, molecules in interstellar space, and lunar radar. It is part of the MERLIN array (Multi-Element-Radio-Linked-Interferometer) that includes other radio telescopes throughout England.

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Jodrell Bank Observatory

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Jodrell Bank Observatory The radio astronomy observatory of the University of Manchester at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, England, founded by A. C. B.Lovell in 1945. Its major instruments include the 76-m Lovell Telescope, the 25 × 38m elliptical Mark II telescope, built in 1964, and the Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/

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Jodrell Bank

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

Jodrell Bank Site of the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories of the University of Manchester. It has one of the world's largest steerable radio telescopes. Diameter: 76m (250ft).

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Jodrell Bank

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Jodrell Bank Ches., recorded from 1831, ‘bank or hill-side belonging to the Jodrell family’, land-owners here in the 19th cent.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Jodrell Bank the site in Cheshire of one of the world's largest radio telescopes, with a fully steerable dish 76 m (250 ft) in diameter.

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