NASA Baffled by Unexplained Force Acting on Space Probes

1 posted on 02/29/2008 5:48:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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They miscalculated the weight?

2 posted on 02/29/2008 5:51:23 PM PST by BenLurkin

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It must have “something” to do with global warming...it MUST!

3 posted on 02/29/2008 5:52:18 PM PST by Eye On The Left

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4 posted on 02/29/2008 5:54:11 PM PST by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)

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Weird gravitational field maybe.

Say... has anyone heard from Michael Moore lately?

5 posted on 02/29/2008 5:54:25 PM PST by ovrtaxt (Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)

Maybe a slight leakage of fuel from the positional thruster?

6 posted on 02/29/2008 5:54:28 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)

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7 posted on 02/29/2008 5:56:18 PM PST by BGHater ($2300 is the limit of your Free Speech.)

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Velikovsky!

The solar system is filled with electricity!

8 posted on 02/29/2008 5:57:22 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear

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Could be God having a little fun! ;-)

9 posted on 02/29/2008 5:58:03 PM PST by doc1019 (God is in control ... not Global Warming.)

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Very interesting. Unexplained anomolies have led to some important scientific discoveries in the past. Every question raised like this begs for an answer.

10 posted on 02/29/2008 5:59:03 PM PST by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)

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Some effects of the rotation of the Earth in conjunction with the Magnetic Field and, perhaps some irregularities in the strength of the Field on either side of the Equator?

11 posted on 02/29/2008 6:02:16 PM PST by TCats (The Clintons Are Not Just Wrong - They Are Certifiable AND Dangerous! See my Page)

12 posted on 02/29/2008 6:06:01 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)

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Interesting.
Not sure, but I believe that all of the fly-byes I’ve seen charted go with the Earth’s rotation. Is there any that have gone against it; or from pole to pole? Gravity drag?

13 posted on 02/29/2008 6:07:11 PM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)

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How about just the pull of the gravity of the sun being different than they though?

I know, I know... BUSH’s fault.

14 posted on 02/29/2008 6:07:57 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)

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15 posted on 02/29/2008 6:10:12 PM PST by valkyrieanne

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Anybody track Gore’s movements with these wobbles?

16 posted on 02/29/2008 6:10:21 PM PST by leadhead (Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think,)

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Hubble photographs show this being at the scene of every incident.

17 posted on 02/29/2008 6:10:36 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)

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The solar system is filled with electricity!

What is the zero-point field or zero-point fluctuations(ZPF)?

What is its relationship to the quantum vacuum? In the view of modern physics, the vacuum is far from empty. Take away all particles and all electromagnetic radiation and you will have an apparently empty region of space at a temperature of absolute zero. But in fact this "vacuum" will still be full of energies and particle pairs (such as positrons and electrons): the electromagnetic zero-point field, the zero-point fields of the weak and strong interactions, and the Dirac sea of negative energy particle pairs. All of these energies and particles are collectively referred to as the quantum vacuum (making the vacuum in reality a plenum). Our work so far has involved only one component of the quantum vacuum: the electromagnetic zero-point field or zero-point fluctuations. (Henceforth, unless stated otherwise, ZPF refers only to the electromagnetic ZPF.) The ZPF was a hypothesis put forward by Max Planck in 1911, and was developed by him and Walther Nernst between 1911 and 1916. In 1947 the effect of the ZPF was directly demonstrated by Willis Lamb, in a famous experiment, which Lamb himself has described as "a proof that the vacuum does not exist" (i.e. that the "vacuum" is a "plenum"). The Casimir effect, predicted in the following year and subsequently verified, is another direct demonstration of the ZPF's reality.

Questions and Answers about the Origin of Inertia and the Zero-Point Field - From CalPhysics

18 posted on 02/29/2008 6:11:12 PM PST by Eye On The Left

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Gravity is the culprit. The center of gravity is really 4,000 miles above the surface of the earth. The earth itself curves inward at the poles, hidden by the polar mists.

Check this old story:

Center of Gravity

19 posted on 02/29/2008 6:12:32 PM PST by Eastbound

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The earth is not perfectly round and its mass distribution varies due to tides, etc.

20 posted on 02/29/2008 6:12:50 PM PST by idkfa

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