Asteroid 2005 YU55 – How Radio Telescopes Probe Space Rocks

Monday, November 7, 2011 - 18:00 in Astronomy & Space

Unlike conventional astronomy – which records information originating in space – radar astronomy sends energy from Earth to the body it is studying, and records the changes after it returns.

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