[Laser] Re: another lunar experiment

Charles Pooley ckpooley at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 11 01:13:28 EDT 2008



F1AVYopto at aol.com wrote:
The 1/D² law applies only on the returning way.
The moon has a  very poor albedo (max 0,2 in the Tycho area) and the 
reflective properties are  lambertian...

Yves F1AVY  
Actually, the return will be somewhat better--the moon is somewhat retroreflective.  There might be a 2x factor improvement.  The reflectivity vs phase angle is available--may some google searching could find it.

Charles Pooley KD6HKU



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