Re:100k Stars
by sparky_z on Sunday May 12, 2024 @12:28AM
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Did you mean "exoplanets" not "exploits"? That's my best guess, but I have no idea what "Josemar bank" is (another typo? Did you mean to name some kind of science museum, maybe?) which makes it hard to tell.
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I think they meant Jodrell Bank,a radio telescope with an astronomy based visitors centre in Cheshire in the uk
Thanks!. Figured it was something like that, but Google and Wikipedia were no help.
It's an interesting name for a telescope. What does "Bank" mean in this context? The Wikipedia article links to another telescope, the "Green Bank", but that one just appears to be named after the town it's in, which doesn't seem to be the case for Jodrell Bank.
Edit: Nevermind, the Wikipedia page does have the answer. "It is named from a nearby rise in the ground, Jodrell Bank, which was named after William Jauderell, an archer whose descendants lived at the mansion that is now Terra Nova School.