Posted on 12/27/2022 7:28:30 PM PST by BenLurkin
A 500-foot-wide asteroid called 2010 XC15 will pass by Earth on December 27.
Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and NASA want to examine the 2010 XC15 space rock to test their preparation against Apophis. This dangerous asteroid might hit our planet in 2029.
The researchers will use the HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) array to shoot 9.6 megahertz radio waves at the 2010 XC15 asteroid. HAARP is a government-funded research program that generally studies the ionosphere (part of Earth’s atmosphere at 50 to 400 miles above the surface).
However, this will be the first time it will be employed to examine an asteroid.
Astronomers have been shooting radio waves in space to spot asteroids; figure out their shape, trajectory, structure of their surface, and many other characteristics. For this purpose, they use radio waves having frequency ranges either in the S-band (2,000 to 4,000 MHz) or X-band (8,000 to 12,000 MHz).
Interestingly, for probing 2010 XC15, the researchers are using waves of much lower frequency (9.6 MHz) and longer wavelengths because, this time, they don’t just want to explore the surface of the asteroid. They want to know what’s inside.
(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...
Lol, 9.6 million radio waves
It would be ‘funny’ if those 9.6 million radio waves got shot right back at us here on earth.
There’d be a lot of finger pointing, if anybody still had fingers.
“more than 9.6 million radio waves”
Strange headline — looks like it was written by someone who may not actually understand the technology or the process.
And that's just the first second ...
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Just when you think your average journalist can’t be any more stupid.
This happens.
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It’s particularly annoying that a writer at a thing called “interesting engineering” doesn’t know what Hz is.
The stupidity! It burns!!!
I thought they were going to try to push it with harp.
BTTT!!!
Man, that hertz!
omg
Angels dont play THIS HAARP.
To be serious though, I did not realize that we had this sort of technology. To not only detect an asteroid from earth, but to attempt to penetrate the surface of an asteroid with radar. Amazing.
An Asteroid Analyzing System.
To be followed shortly after by a 9.6 million radio wave march.
Me, too.
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