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The development of radar and powerful transmitters enable astronomers to bounce radio waves off of planets and asteroids. The echo enables us to determine their rotation rate, and characteristics of the surface material. Here, as astronomers do, we calibrate our transmitter and receiver system.
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Golden, L.M. (2013). Experiment 9 Determination of the Rotation Rate of Planets and Asteroids by Radar: Part I. Observations of Mercury. In: Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Modern Astronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3311-8_9
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