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  1. Fylingdales Early Warning

    Date released
    5 May 1966
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    593
    NoS ID
    121752
    Story no
    1 / 2
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: The weird radar domes perched on remote Fylingdales Moor look like a lunar outpost but they really are evidence that we’re in the space age. It’s the Ballistic Missile Early Warning...

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  2. Meteorite Impact (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS (NTSC only). col. 84 min., 1999 sale: US$19.95 (+p&p)

    Uses computer graphs and footage of meteorite craters around the world to discuss the science of meteors and meteorites and relate the legend and myth surrounding them.

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  3. Meteorite lands in Ulster (1977)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with John Tate, a lecturer at Armagh Planetarium, on a possible meteorite landing in Ulster. Female interviewer not identified. Audio quality poor and cuts out in places.

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  4. Recent additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

    Date
    8 Apr 2013, 14:23
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,300 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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  5. Search for the Tunguska Meteorite, The (1967 Video)

    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Special loan only, Videocassette. Standard formats. col.

    At 7.17am on June 30, 1908, an explosion of tremendous violence disrupted the remote Siberian taiga several hundred miles north of Irkutsk. The film describes this event and the scientific effort that has...

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  6. Frontiers of Geology (1988 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Illustrates meteorite research, including an appraisal of Halley’s Comet; meteorite collecting in the Antarctic; the OU research related to the origin of SNC meteorites which have possibly come from Mars;...

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  7. Life is Impossible (1993 Video)

    Producer
    John Lynch
    Subject
    Astronomy; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at theories on the origins of life. When did life begin and did it evolve on earth, in the sea or in space? In 1953, scientists thought that they had found the answer with a recipe for a primordial...

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  8. Meteor shower to hit Earth (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Astronomer Dr John Gribbin discusses the likelihood of a meteor shower on Earth, which has occurred before, and is a natural phemomenon. This is nothing to be worried about, he says, and is comparable to a...

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  9. Savage Planet (2000 Video)

    Director
    Kate Coombes; Emma Hawley; Chris Malone
    Producer
    Liz McLeod
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 186 min., 2000 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

    Series in eight parts about natural phenomena and catastrophic events: 1) Star Wounds: meteorites and the possibilities of a meteorite collision; 2) White Terror: avalanches; 3) Dangerous Waters: volcanic...

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  10. IRAS-Akari-Alcock comet discovered (1983)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male speaker (poss. amateur astronomer George Alcock) on the discovery and sighting of a new comet, named the IRAS-Akari-Alcock, after the names of those who have confirmed its existence. Male...

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