[LibWhacker]

Full title is: "The Spacecraft Flyby Mystery" - Is Dark Matter the Culprit or is There a New Physics Waiting to be Discovered?

[cripplecreek]

To tell you the truth, it sounds like a simple miscalculation in their math. If they simply add the extra 13mm per second, the unexpected acceleration goes away.

[WayneS]

Dark matter?

That’s RACIST!

[Talisker]

Here's the answer: A Correction to a Famous Equation

[WayneS]

Alder suggests that the Earth may be passing through "clouds" of WIMPs...

Well, that explains the origin of the Obama administration...

[JPG]

Obviously, we don't know everything. Still, the mechanics and precision used by the rocket science types is absolutely amazing. For example, Voyager 2 took 12 years to reach Neptune and arrived at a precise location only 1 SECOND different than what had been predicted. Heavy, heavy stuff.

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’s called torsion fields. All rotating bodies create them while spinning.

[BwanaNdege]

NASA, come on guys! The evidence is right in front of you!

Obama’s Gravitas
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2008/analysis-obamas-gravitas.html

The confirmation is right in this article: “Stephen L. Adler of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton...suggests that the Earth may be passing through “clouds” of WIMPs”

There you have it! The WaPo tells us of Obama’s gravitas and a Princeton (Ivy League, you know!) astronomer tells us that it might be caused by WIMPs.

Voila! Mystery solved; it is Obama’s fault. Just factor his current location on the planet when the spacecraft does its fly-by and all the orbital calculations work out just fine.

If only there had been a satellite fly-by on Obama’s birthday then a really good astronomer/astrologer could tell us what side of the planet he was born. Hmmmm, inquiring minds want to know! /sarc

[dfwgator]

“Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.”

“That’s a negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.”

[DManA]

It’s be funny if they found out that aether existed after all.

[Scythian]

This posts are rediculous. First, it pre-supposes these guys no how things work and that something is behaving very oddly, the truth is they don’t know jack squat about “space”. How long ago was it we decided Pluto wasn’t a planet? This is the least reliable field of the sciences, and full of ignorant and arrogant people, IMHO.

[Scythian]

These posts are rediculous. First, it pre-supposes these guys no how things work and that something is behaving very oddly, the truth is they don’t know jack squat about “space”. How long ago was it we decided Pluto wasn’t a planet? This is the least reliable field of the sciences, and full of ignorant and arrogant people, IMHO.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Several ideas have been proposed in an attempt to explain why the anomaly occurs, ranging from tidal effects of the near-Earth environment, atmospheric drag, or the pressure of radiation emitted or reflected by the Earth,

It's called the Goron Effect, or in simple laymans term's "Global Warming" causing the pressure increase in radiation emitted or reflected.

[aruanan]

When scientists send their spacecraft across the universe, they save fuel by performing “slingshot fly-bys”.

Sheesh. Across the universe? Nothing's been sent across the universe yet. Not even the galaxy, much less the diameter of the solar system.

[Yo-Yo]

A similar story, by the otherwise nutcase Richard Hoagland:

Von Braun’s 50-Year-Old Secret: The US Explorer I Discovery that Could Have Saved the World...

[Neanderthal]

"JPL researcher Anderson, first saw the effect in 1980, but waited until he had accumulated data over the next 15 years, before he could easily dismiss it as the result of systematic errors. "Like a lot of problems in astronomy, many years of observation are needed," Anderson said."

The global warming guys didn't need to wait 15 years, or to confirm anything.

[Paco]

Hmm, Occum’s Razor...maybe their speedometer is off. If not, I’m going to use this mysterious “acceleration” excuse the next time I get pulled over for speeding...

[Paco]

Hmm, Occum’s Razor...maybe their speedometer is off. If not, I’m going to use this mysterious “acceleration” excuse the next time I get pulled over for speeding...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks LibWhacker!

the craft changes its trajectory by harnessing the enormous gravitational pull of a planet... an unexpected side-effect: it seems to produce a change in speed that no one, since it was first discovered in the early 1990's, can account for... while the acceleration is tiny and has no significant effect on NASA missions... no explanation based on conventional physics and understanding has been found. The effect is so persistent that it could indicate some physics not considered in previous attempts to explain the motions of bodies in the universe. In 1998, for example, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft had its speed boosted by an additional 13.5 millimetres per second. There are many examples of this, but no explanation -- which raises the tantalizing possibility that it could be a sign that a whole new branch of physics is waiting to be discovered. Mysteriously, four spacecraft that flew past the Earth have each displayed unexpected anomalies in their motions.

It's almost as if physical reality doesn't conform to 17th century ideas, egad!

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[samtheman]

In five of the six flybys, the scientists have confirmed anomalies.

If it happens all the time -- or nearly all the time-- it's not an "anomaly" anymore.