South Pole Neutron Detectors Given New Role in Predicting Space Weather

The approach could help give advanced warning to astronauts and sattelites, which would otherwise be irradiated and fried, respectively.

"Sattelites"? "Irradiated and fried, respectively" like meat? Respective of what?
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People get irradiated (ie cells affected by radiation)
Satellites get fried (ie circuts and/or other electronic components get shorted)

Both are common use terms (adjectives if you will) for the respective nouns that they are used to describe.

Respectively, in that sentence refers not to the sense of of the word which pertains to 'honor', but to the sense of the word that defines the order in which the given adjectives apply to the nouns. I.e. the term 'respectively' denotes that Irradiated refers to the Astro

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