“…To verify the correctness of the proposed method, we compared the dependences of the scattering dia gram g(θ, ϕ) (here, (θ, ϕ) are spherical coordinates) of a thin disk with a radius ka = 50 and a highly oblate spheroid with semiaxes ka = 50 and kc = 0.5, where To solve the problem of plane wave diffraction by an oblate spheroid, we used a version of the modified dis crete source method (MDSM) [9,10]. Figure 1 shows the angular dependences of the magnitude of the scat tering diagram for a thin disk (solid curve) and a spher oid (open dots) with the dimensions specified above.…”