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A lunar radar study at 10-cm wavelength

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

B. S. Yaplee ,
Nancy G. Roman ,
K. J. Craig  and
T. F. Scanlan
B. S. Yaplee
Affiliation:
Radio Astronomy Branch, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C., USA.
Nancy G. Roman
Affiliation:
Radio Astronomy Branch, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C., USA.
K. J. Craig
Affiliation:
Radio Astronomy Branch, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C., USA.
T. F. Scanlan
Affiliation:
Radio Astronomy Branch, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C., USA.

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In February 1957 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory was successful in obtaining radar echoes from the moon by using a short-pulse radar [1]. Although the signal-to-noise ratio was not as large as desired, the leading edge of the echo was sufficiently well defined to make possible an accurate measurement of the radar distance to the moon. It was hoped that geodetic information could be extracted from such distance measurements. Hence in October and November, 1957, the radar distance to the moon was measured with a radar mounted in the 50-foot steerable parabola at NRL.

Type
Part I: Moon and Planets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 9: Paris Symposium on Radio Astronomy , 1959 , pp. 19 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © Stanford University Press 1959 

References

1. Yaplee, B. S., Bruton, R. H., Craig, K. J., and Roman, N. G. Proc. I.R.E. 46, 293, 1958.Google Scholar
2. Mulligan, J. F., and MacDonald, D. F. Amer. J. Phys. 25, 180–92, March 1957.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3. Obtained from the U. S. Army Map Service.Google Scholar
4.Value obtained from Allen, C. W., Astrophysical Quantities. London (The Athlone Press), 1955.Google Scholar
5. Calculated from a formula in The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac , Washington, D. C. (Government Printing Office).Google Scholar
6. Taken from Improved Lunar Ephemeris, 1952–1959. Washington, D. C. (Government Printing Office).Google Scholar