Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Bella and Jordyn's QUESTIONS about the Meerkat SKA poject

We are going to be asking Thomas Bennet some questions on the Meerkat SKA project.

1. What is the differance between the types of telescopes and their jobs that     are going to be used?
2. How do the telescopes turn radio waves into information?
3. What are they going to be trying to find the answers to?
4. What is Einsteins theory of reletivity?
5. What is so important about using radio waves and not anything else?
6. How does the information get from the telescope to where they read it?
7. How does the how does the Meerkat project fit into SKA?
8. What is the gregorian offset dish?
9. How do the telescopes connect to make one big telescope?
10. What do the small telescopes look for?
11. What do the medium sized telescopes look for?
12. What do the big telescopes look for?
13. How will you find out about planets which have been destroyed?
14. Why are the governments putting so much money into this project?
15. Why is it called a square kilometre array?
16. Do the different telescopes look for different things in the universe?

 

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