[time-nuts] Overheard from NASA
Jim Lux
jimlux at earthlink.net
Tue May 10 13:13:50 UTC 2011
On 5/10/11 3:43 AM, Jim Palfreyman wrote:
> Why xray pulsars?
>
> Millisecond pulsars have shown themselves to be very accurate - wouldn't an
> ensemble of those be a better choice?
>
> Jim
>
I think it's an energy/flux density thing. you need a big antenna to
detect the millisecond pulsars.. bigger than will fit on a spacecraft a
few meters on a side. Cassini was huge (4+ meters in diameter, maybe
twice that long), but a lot of spacecraft are much smaller. The vault
on Juno is about a 1 meter cube.
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