Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!KFL From: KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Detecting Earth Message-ID: <3222@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 14:18:44 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3222 Posted: Sat Aug 10 14:18:44 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:08:41 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 8 From: Keith F. LynchThe Earth's radio signals are NOT occulted once a year, except to obsevers within 1/4 degree of the ecliptic plane. That's only about 1/200th of the sky. It is not necessary to resolve the Sun from the Earth, since Earth is much brighter than the Sun at the wavelengths of interest. ...Keith