Question 1: Over the last 10 years, a large number of iceballs have been found in the outer solar system out beyond Pluto. These objects are collectively known as the Kuiper Belt. An amateur astronomer suggests using the radar ranging technique to learn the rotation periods of Kuiper Belt Objects. Do you think that this plan would be successful? Explain why or why not?

Radar ranging is not suitable for this plan because of the challenges that associate with the implementation of radar ranging. The Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. The distance of these kuiper belts to the earth is enormously large, as soon as the signal is sent, it begins to spread out and the larger the distance the more spread out the signal would have been before getting to its destination, the more the echo that is generated resulting in a very poor signal strength.

annyksl annyksl · Answer 2 · 2021-12-02T01:44:51+01:00

The plan would not succeed using radar.

We can arrive at this answer because:

The question states that the ice balls are beyond Pluto.
This means that the distance of these balls to the Earth is very high, which would make it very difficult for radar to have enough waves to detect them.
Furthermore, radar could not be installed in nearby places due to the difficulty of reaching these places and creating systems and equipment capable of reaching these places.

With that, we can say that radar has a very archaic technology to reach ice balls that far away. In that case, more modern and powerful equipment would be needed.

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