Scientists use HAARP antennas to probe asteroid interior

Scientists at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) project, an Alaska facility often accused of manipulating the weather for military purposes (although there is no evidence), conducted an experiment to protect the Earth. 180 antenna sets sent long-wave radio signals to probe the interior of an asteroid.

The asteroid known as 2010 XC15 is about 150 meters wide and Classified as potentially dangerous by NASAthat is, by regularly approaching Earth from a distance of two months, it could at some point enter a collision course with the planet.

The project’s principal investigator and engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Mark Haynes, promises that the results of the December 27 experiment have been analyzed and will be published “in the coming months.” “This is the first time an asteroid observation has been attempted at such low frequencies”said the researcher.

How important is HAARP for asteroid search?

Currently, there are several programs whose task is to detect the approach of asteroids, calculate their orbits, model and theorize their surfaces. This is done daily with optical telescopes or the so-called planetary radar. Deep Space Network (DSN)three NASA super antenna arrays interacting with various stations and spacecraft.

But these images from Goldstone in the US, Robledo de Chavela in Spain and Canberra in Australia have a limitation: They do not provide any information about the interior of asteroids.

That is, because it basically works with short waves, the signals reflect off the surface of space objects and provide excellent exterior images, but they do not “enter” asteroids. By literally digging deep into their research, Haynes says that the Gakona antennas could consider themselves “a potential future research tool for the study of near-Earth objects.”

How was the HAARP experiment done?

In the experiment conducted at the end of last year, HAARP used three powerful generators. sending radio wave signals to the asteroid 2010 XC15 continuously for 12 hoursIt starts at 2 a.m. on December 27.

These signals were picked up by scientific radio antennas all over the world, including those operated by amateurs. More than 300 reports have been received so far from the amateur radio and radio astronomy communities to aid analysis, HAARP administrator Jessica Matthews said in a statement.