[FPSPACE] Ceres as a giant radio telescope

[LARRY KLAES]

How about Ceres as a giant radio telescope: 


 

http://www.opennasa.com/2009/03/08/the-benac-orbit-keplers-follow-on/ 

 

The Benac Orbit, Kepler’s Follow On 


 

Once Kepler finds the other Earths, it time to listen to their radio 
stations! 


 

So here is the next big thing: Craters as huge satellite dishes for 
antenna feeds orbiting above them. 


 

Think Arecibo, but a bagillion times bigger, and instead of that 
little white thing hanging on cables with winches you have a satellite 
flying above the dish. 


 

Ceres, you big ball of radio wave reflective ice and rock, this is 
what you–and your equatorial craters–were made for! Orbital parameters 
copy write. (But if you must know: http://www.twitter.com/johnbenac) 

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