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The meer kat project
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2. • The Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope - or SKA will be the world's
biggest telescope and one of the biggest scientific projects ever.
•They are going to use it to find out more about how stars and galaxies are
formed and how they evolved over time and find out more about dark
matter that takes up 95% of the universe.
•It is going to be the biggest telescope in the world.
3. • Most of the SKA will be built in South Africa.
• The core will be built in the Northern
Cape Province (the same site as where the MeerKAT is being built).
• The rest will be built in Western Australia.
• In 2006 Australia and South Africa were chosen as potential sites for
building the SKA.
• Radio telescopes must be located as far away as possible from man-
made electronics or machines.
•The site should also be as high and dry as possible, because some
radio waves are absorbed by the moisture in our atmosphere.
4. • MeerKAT is the smaller part of the SKA project.
• It is like the SKA tester.
•MeerKAT is happening in South Africa.
• South Africa has already built seven dishes (KAT-7), as a tester for MeerKAT.
• Close to 100 young scientists and engineers are working on the MeerKAT.
5. • The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be a radio telescope – instead of
seeing light waves, it will make pictures from radio waves.
• The data collected by the SKA in a single day would take nearly 2 million
years to playback on an ipod.
• SKA stands for “square kilometre array”.
• The project will be finished in 2024.
• Astronomy courses are being taught because of the SKA project in
Kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius (which has had a radio
telescope for many years).
• SKA will cost about R20 billion to build.
6. • The SKA telescope will be so sensitive that it will be able to detect an airport
radar on a planet 50 light years away
• On the 19th of March 2013 a team of astronomers discovered a previously
unknown radio galaxy discovered by a SKA telescope.
• The MeerKAT telescope will have 64 Gregorian dishes each 13.5 m in
diameter.
•The SKA will give enough data to fill 15 million 64GB iPods every day.
