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The Sky at Night Season 45 Episodes
Season 45 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2001 - 2001
Episode 1
Genesis: Earth and Moon
Patrick Moore is joined by Professor Chris Kitchin to discuss how the Earth and Moon grew from billions of dust grains, each too small to see.
Episode 2
Cassini: Next Stop Saturn
On December 30 2000, the Cassini-Huygens space probe sailed past Jupiter, before arriving at Saturn and its moon, Titan, in 2004. Patrick Moore is joined by Dr John Zarnecki to discuss the latest news from this deep-space mission.
Episode 3
A New View of Mars
Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Peter Cattermole to discuss images of Mars sent from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which has collected more information about Mars than all previous missions combined.
Episode 4
Pictures from the Red Planet
Patrick Moore and Dr. Peter Cattermole discuss the latest Nasa images of Mars.
Episode 5
Meet the Neighbours
Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Monica Grady to discuss the latest views on how life originates, where else in our Solar System it might exist, and what it might look like.
Episode 6
Eye Spy ...
Patrick Moore visits one of the UK's newest and most exciting observatories, The Crendon Observatory, where Gordon Rogers demonstrates how he produces amazing deep-sky images of distant galaxies and nebulae.
Episode 7
Our Star
The Sun is at the peak of its 11 year cycle of activity and has also just been eclipsed by the Moon. Patrick Moore is joined by Chris Lintott to its variability and to look back at previous eclipses.
Episode 8
Crash and Burn
Patrick Moore is joined by Jonathan Tate and Lembit Opik for the first of two programmes on the small fragments of space debris that are constantly bombarding the Earth.
Episode 9
Great Balls of Fire
Patrick Moore continues his discussion with Jay Tate and Lembit Opik about the threat to the Earth from a Potentially Hazardous Object.
Episode 10
Evolving Universe - Beginnings
Patrick Moore is joined by Chris Lintott for a back-to-basics explanation of cosmology Do current theories explain the 13 billion year evolution of the Universe and by looking back to the big bang can the fate of the Universe be predicted?
Episode 11
Evolving Universe - Modern Views
In the second of two programmes on cosmology, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott look at the latest theories on inflation, dark energy and the accelerating Universe.
Episode 12
The Lion's Storm
Patrick Moore is joined by Dr John Mason who examines recent Leonid meteor showers to explain why they happen, and predict whether a spectacular storm of shooting stars may be in store this year.
Episode 13
The Star of Bethlehem
Patrick Moore is joined by David Hughes and Mark Kidger to discuss what the biblical Star of Bethlehem may have been. Both have made careful studies of the records, can they give a convincing answer?