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- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Path: sparky!uunet!worldbank.org!news
- From: dearnsha@wizard.worldbank.org
- Subject: Re: Early Warning of missiles and meteo
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.180942.17045@worldbank.org>
- Sender: news@worldbank.org
- Organization: The World Bank
- References: <6202@ucru2.ucr.edu> <1469100010@igc.apc.org>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:09:42 GMT
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- In article <1469100010@igc.apc.org> Mark Goodman <mwgoodman@igc.apc.org>
- writes:
- >
- >To: sci.space From: Mark Goodman (mwgoodman@igc.org) Re:
- >Meteoroid Detection Date: 18 Aug 1992
- >
- > [... deleted...]
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- >Also, over-the-horizon radars are irrelevant to this discussion.
- >They do not have anything like the sensitivity required to see a
- >meteoroid against the backscatter of the Earth's surface.
- >
- >+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
- >| Mark W. Goodman | What a terrible thing it is |
- >| mwgoodman@igc.org -- econet | to lose your mind. |
- >| goodman@ksgbbs.harvard.edu | |
- >+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
- >
- >
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- Bzzzt. Wrong. OTH radars are very sensitive, and are usually located
- in areas with very low noise floors - they have to be to resolve very
- weak returns (via a path which exhibits high attenuation), and detect
- small objects, such as aeroplanes, at very long ranges! As a meteor
- entering the atmosphere causes ionisation, the "target" is twice as
- close as a regular target (ie, half way along the propagation path),
- and will have a much larger doppler shift than an aeroplane (or missile
- for that matter). The main drawback is that it only detects meteors
- than enter the atmosphere on the radar's boresight.
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