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 ...
It was also in the novel before that, from which they made the movie.
No it isn’t. Or you haven’t been paying attention.
Viral gain of function research
Experimental mRNA “vaccines”
Gender reassignment
And on and on….federal money from the left funding all sorts of BS in the name of “science”.
At 2.4 GHz, that won’t take long.
Won’t that be like the infamous skyscreamer seen after Trump won....times 9.6 million?
Maybe the undocumented Martians were using Morse Code. It’s retro, but still has it’s uses here and there.
Hitting Hunter’s Laptops wiping out all evidence of the crimes..... mmmmmm
True, that.
Let's blow it up into a gazillion UNMANAGEABLE, untrackable pieces an' see what happens, eh, ol chap !
RWM? Radio Waves Matter..... or are the matter? That is the two questions? Look, a double entendre 🤣
No matter.
(right back atcha, lol)
We gotta put a stop to the sale of fully automatic AR14s that shoot 9.6 million radio wave caliber bullets.
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I’m asking because I don’t know that answer.
Okay, Thanks
Are you scared of climate change too?
No. What a strange question. More leftist BS.
You quote Hollywood twaddle as wisdom.
Scared of your shadow. The mirror image of the liberals.
Don’t fall for the fear trap.
I had to look into that more about using the radio waves to determine rotation. Pretty amazing how they were using radar to do that in the 1960’s - only 20 years after the invention of radar!
If I understood the article I read correctly, in the late 1950’s they first used it to try to determine the temperature at the ground surface. They used different frequencies but they gave variable results. Those variable results were believed to be caused by the density of the atmosphere iirc. With one frequency measuring the temperature of the atmosphere and another the ground surface. (Or something).
The Venus probes and parachutes were designed using those parameters, and found their temperature estimates to be pretty good.
Another article (see below) discussed further study and refinement of how Venus acts (rotation, tilt, etc.) that was presented in 2021. This study more accurately predicts where various features are on Venus. Something about how the tilt varies (wobbles) more than we thought, and objects on the ground could vary more than 20 miles in position over 30 years than what we previously had thought.
Thanks for the chance to go down a rabbit hole and learn something new.
https://astronomy.com/news/2021/05/what-echoing-radio-waves-taught-us-about-venus
It wasn’t Hollywood, it was from a Crighton novel that happened to become a movie. You should read his book State of Fear. One of the best rebuttals of leftist bullshit about Climate Change.
Yes. I read that by Crichton. Quite good.
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