An Asteroid Is Passing Earth Today, so Scientists Are Shooting It With Radio Waves
A group of researchers is essay to ricochet wireless signals off a 500 - foot - wide asteroid during its closelipped flyby of Earth on Tuesday . The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program ( HAARP ) is aiming its antennas at asteroid 2010 XC15 , a place rock that ’s categorized as a dear - world potentially hazardous asteroid . The sweat is a mental testing campaign to to develop for a larger object , hump as Apophis , that will have a close encounter with our major planet in 2029 ....