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.
They may be ignorant and arrogant, but their models work beautifully in explaining the orbits of earth bound satellites. They are humbly and modestly trying to understand why the same models do not work for satellites grazing earth. And even then, in the case of assymetrical orbits, they do work. Whether or not Pluto is a planet is a purely semantic issue. Call Pluto what you will. Whatever you chose to call it has nothing at all to do with astrodynamics.