[MLB-WIRELESS] Fwd: Lord of the Rings style link to NASA Canberra

[Zik Saleeba]

It's called a retroreflector:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroreflector

Cheers,
Zik

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Naz Gassiep <naz at mira.net> wrote:

>  As I understand it, that is not possible. There is no geometry that can
> reflect a path to its origin from any angle and any origin.
> - Naz.
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> hannah commodore wrote:
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> Paul van den Bergen wrote:
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>  if I understand correctly, NASA left a mirror on the moon
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>  they did leave a refroreflector on the moon, but by design it only
> reflects lasers back to the same location from where they came
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_Experiment
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