Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar?

2011-04-14 Thread Sterling K. Webb
] Space Radar? --- On Wed, 4/13/11, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote: From: Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? (Was: Cold Asteroids May Have A Soft Heart) To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 10:15 PM

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar?

2011-04-14 Thread Meteorites USA
...@meteoritesusa.com Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:40 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? --- On Wed, 4/13/11, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote: From: Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? (Was: Cold Asteroids May Have A Soft

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar?

2011-04-14 Thread Richard A. Kowalski
On 4/13/2011 11:41 PM, Meteorites USA wrote: How much is the Earth worth? ;) Eric Hey Eric. I know this was a bit of a rhetorical question, but I'll add a bit more to this discussion for those who may not be familiar with the topic. Unless I missed something, the United States is the only

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? (Was: Cold Asteroids May Have A Soft Heart)

2011-04-14 Thread Walter Branch
. - Original Message - From: Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 1:15 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? (Was: Cold Asteroids May Have A Soft Heart) Richard, List, Since smaller meteoroids and asteroids

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar?

2011-04-14 Thread Meteorites USA
I've got an idea. (imagine that) ;) Since funding for space programs and missions seems to be so damned hard to get, and budget cuts usually effect the space program first. Perhaps someone should package this program/mission as a defense program. A private company seems to get a government

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar?

2011-04-14 Thread Matson, Robert D.
@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? I've got an idea. (imagine that) ;) Since funding for space programs and missions seems to be so damned hard to get, and budget cuts usually effect the space program first. Perhaps someone should package this program/mission as a defense program

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar?

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Kowalski
--- On Thu, 4/14/11, Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com wrote: From: Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 11:18 AM Hi Eric, There is one crucial aspect of the radar

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar?

2011-04-14 Thread Meteorites USA
To: Richard A. Kowalski Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? I've got an idea. (imagine that) ;) Since funding for space programs and missions seems to be so damned hard to get, and budget cuts usually effect the space program first. Perhaps someone should

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar?

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Kowalski
Hi Eric, Sorry but I'll have to be a bit blunt here. Amateurs can NOT do what is required. A decade ago it was possible for amateurs to discover main belt asteroids with typical backyard telescopes. That golden age is long gone. To just keep up with the current state of the field, an

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? (Was: Cold Asteroids May Have A Soft Heart)

2011-04-13 Thread Meteorites USA
Richard, List, Since smaller meteoroids and asteroids are nearly undetectable in space, and we're currently searching optically with telescopes. Is it possible to detect meteoroids/asteroids with space based radar? Will radar even work in space? If so, what's the range, and how would it

Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar?

2011-04-13 Thread Richard A. Kowalski
--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com wrote: From: Meteorites USA e...@meteoritesusa.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Radar? (Was: Cold Asteroids May Have A Soft Heart) To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 10:15 PM Richard

[meteorite-list] Space Radar Provides a Taste of Comet Hartley 2

2010-10-29 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-358 Space Radar Provides a Taste of Comet Hartley 2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory October 28, 2010 Exactly one week before the world gets a new look at comet Hartley 2 via NASA's EPOXI mission, observations of the comet by the Arecibo Planetary