HAARP to bounce signal off asteroid in NASA experiment [Dec. 27]

An experiment to bounce a radio signal off an asteroid on Dec. 27 will serve as a test for probing a larger asteroid that in 2029 will pass closer to Earth than the many geostationary satellites that orbit our planet.

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program research site in Gakona will transmit radio signals to asteroid 2010 XC15, which could be about 500 feet across. The University of New Mexico Long Wavelength Array near Socorro, New Mexico, and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array near Bishop, California, will receive the signal.

“What’s new and what we are trying to do is probe asteroid interiors with long wavelength radars and radio telescopes from the ground,” said Mark Haynes, lead investigator on the project and a radar systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “Longer wavelengths can penetrate the interior of an object much better than the radio wavelengths used for communication.”

Knowing more about an asteroid’s interior, especially of an asteroid large enough to cause major damage on Earth, is important for determining how to defend against it.

“If you know the distribution of mass, you can make an impactor more effective, because you’ll know where to hit the asteroid a little better,” Haynes said.

Many programs exist to quickly detect asteroids, determine their orbit and shape and image their surface, either with optical telescopes or the planetary radar of the Deep Space Network, NASA’s network of large and highly senstive radio antennas in California, Spain and Australia.

Those radar-imaging programs use signals of short wavelengths, which bounce off the surface and provide high-quality external images but don’t penetrate an object.

HAARP will transmit a continually chirping signal to asteroid 2010 XC15 at slightly above and below 9.6 megahertz (9.6 million times per second). The chirp will repeat at two-second intervals. Distance will be a challenge, Haynes said, because the asteroid will be twice as far from Earth as the moon is.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks operates HAARP under an agreement with the Air Force, which developed and owned HAARP but transferred the research instruments to UAF in August 2015.

The test on 2010 XC15 is yet another step toward the globally anticipated 2029 encounter with asteroid Apophis. It follows tests in January and October in which the moon was the target of a HAARP signal bounce.

Apophis was discovered in 2004 and will make its closest approach to Earth on April 13, 2029, when it comes within 20,000 miles. Geostationary satellites orbit Earth at about 23,000 miles. The asteroid, which NASA estimated to be about 1,100 feet across, was initially thought to pose a risk to Earth in 2068, but its orbit has since been better projected by researchers.

The test on 2010 XC15 and the 2029 Apophis encounter are of general interest to scientists who study near-Earth objects. But planetary defense is also a key research driver.

“The more time there is before a potential impact, the more options there are to try to deflect it,” Haynes said.

NASA says an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth’s atmosphere about once a year, creating a fireball and burning up before reaching the surface.

About every 2,000 years a meteoroid the size of a football field hits Earth. Those can cause a lot of damage. And as for wiping out civilization, NASA says an object large enough to do that strikes the planet once every few million years.

NASA first successfully redirected an asteroid on Sept. 26, when its Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART, collided with Dimorphos. That asteroid is an orbiting moonlet of the larger Didymos asteroid.

The Dec. 27 test could reveal great potential for the use of asteroid sensing by long wavelength radio signals. Approximately 80 known near-Earth asteroids passed between the moon and Earth in 2019, most of them small and discovered near closest approach.

“If we can get the ground-based systems up and running, then that will give us a lot of chances to try to do interior sensing of these objects,” Haynes said.

The National Science Foundation is funding the work through its award to the Geophysical Institute for establishing the Subauroral Geophysical Observatory for Space Physics and Radio Science in Gakona

“HAARP is excited to partner with NASA and JPL to advance our knowledge of near-Earth objects,” said Jessica Matthews, HAARP’s program manager.

CONTACTS: • Ian J. O’Neill, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ian.j.oneill@jpl.nasa.gov

• Rod Boyce University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, 907-474-7185, rcboyce@alaska.edu

Thank you for the comprehensive and interesting additions to this thread, including the insider jargon:

I’ve been to Goldstone near Barstow CA. The large dish was huge and the actual building structure rotates on hydraulic plates. Radio operators refer to rotating a beam antenna as “turning the house” That is appropriate at Goldstone. I even saw the Gold (plated) Bricks (for cooling of the components)

DSS 14: "Mars" 70m Cassegrain reflector on Alt/Az mount. ~3850 m2 aperture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex#Antennas

Here's the image of the on-site informational sign.

"DSN – Follow the Sun"

The home page has a simple map diagram of the complex, and the farthest point out is the location of MARS. This is interesting to me because for some odd reason the Japanese flag is the simple orb of a *red* sun (Nihon/Japan: "origin of the sun"). Looks like Mars. Some kind of bait and switch going on in the lower worlds, haha.

Ah, but the name of the place is Goldstone, and on Google maps, the address is placed at the guard gate:

93 Goldstone Rd, Fort Irwin, CA 92310

Somebody must have had some fun with all of it, because 93 mil miles is of course the distance to the sun. 93 = "The Megillah", if anyone could believe it.

Some while back I had been looking at the map of Fort Irwin and the training center address jumped right out because I already had a long list:

983 Inner Loop Rd, Fort Irwin, CA 92310

It's amazing how much there is to see around the world just by browsing a page such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_telescopes

What's in a name.. Bar-stow, because who would ever be looking [up from] there.

Nothing is by coincidence.

It's not just analog time, it's kosher hour (שְׁעַת כּוֹשֵׁר aka "opportunity"), knocking at the door, in the Torah:

December 26, 2022
Scientists plan to hit an asteroid with more than 9.6 million radio waves from HAARP
Low-frequency radio waves can reveal the intent and interiors of an asteroid.
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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.
HAARP will dig deep into the 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.
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On December 27, the distance between 2010 XC15 and Earth will be around twice the distance between Earth and the moon. HAARP will be shooting 9.6 million chirping radio waves every second to this distance, and this process will be repeated every two seconds.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/hitting-an-asteroid-with-radio-waves

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While HAARP is repetitively chirping

on the 3rd day of the week/Mars' Day, which is the 3rd day of Christmas (3 French hens, 2 turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree), and the 3rd of Tevet...

The Chumash sez that Jacob learns that his son Joseph is still alive, which involves that famous midrash which goes something like this, by means of

waves of much lower frequency...

His sons didn't want to shock Jacob with the news [lest he die of a heart attack], so they rounded up precious little Serach (the future search lady who tipped off Moses to search deep in de Nile, because it's not just a river in Egypt) to sit on her grandfather's lap, to play her harp....

... softly repeating the words so the news could sink in slowly and gently as she sang:

Joseph is alive and living in Mitzraim
He has two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

It's just like what all the signs having gently informing out of the blue (lit. on the solid blue background):

"Your Surprise is Waiting."

26. And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt; And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not:
27. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:

Daily Thought
Joseph's Advice
Joseph overcame the natural human instinct to take revenge against his brothers or even bear a grudge. Instead, he provided them only good...
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=12/27/2022

It's not any effort at all when it is love. And you know the basic concept behind matching gematriot, that there's a deeper connection involved.

156: Tzion, Tent of Meeting, Yosef, Ezekiel...

156 Years Later, Ulysses S. Grant Could Get One Last Promotion

Luv him or hate him, the fact is that "Grant" is the face on the 50.

Low-frequency radio waves can reveal the intent and interiors of...

the HAART. ♥

Would you just look at that? Like Joseph himself, a super-saver for all the family,

at Michael's no less --

12 Pack: Red Heart® Super Saver® Yarn, Solid
$38.88 $3.24 ea.
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Earlier today:

3:24:

So I checked out the Hebrew. Candy cane is "מקל סבא", a grandfather's cane, which = 233, the same as "the tree of life" [עץ החיים]. That phrase is even the first place the sum appears in the Torah (Gen 3:24).
And as you can tell, it branches out in all sorts of directions! What next?!
... Edom + Jacob = 233 = "Ezekiel ben Buzi", and also Joseph spelled out by each letter. Way more, on and on.
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Ezekiel been busy.

I'll leave the light on for you. ~ EZ

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