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Do Asteroids Emit Radio Signals?

-- | June 18, 2017

Question: Do Asteroids emit radio signals?  — Ron

Answer: Asteroids are basically rocks floating around in our solar system.  When asteroids absorb light from the Sun their surfaces heat-up.  When their surfaces heat-up they re-emit light at longer wavelengths, through a process called black body emission, including infrared and radio wavelengths.  This then allows us to see asteroids at radio wavelengths.

Jeff Mangum