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Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by minniesoda
Hm...you've got me thinking... I wonder what sort of effect the landings and liftoffs of the Apollo landers had on the angular momentum of the moon, and if that could account for the increase in eccentricity (plus the long-term nature of that increase).
Originally posted by theabsolutetruth
reply to post by Xcellante
Brian Cox also denies there could be intelligent life in the universe other than humans!!!!!
Originally posted by theabsolutetruth
reply to post by Xcellante
Brian Cox also denies there could be intelligent life in the universe other than humans!!!!!
Originally posted by pazcat
Originally posted by theabsolutetruth
reply to post by Xcellante
Brian Cox also denies there could be intelligent life in the universe other than humans!!!!!
No he does not, in fact he is quite open to the suggestion. He certainly believes in non intelligent forms of life existing and is aware the building blocks are all throughout the universe.
de/dt_meas = 9 x 10^-12 per year - that's 0.000000009 change in eccentricity PER YEAR. Not gonna cause visible changes i am afraid.
electroweak02 2 weeks ago
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
I remember hearing that when the apollo took place having them land and take off was said to have moved the moon. Last couple of years they shot 'missiles' at it for tests.
Could it be that man has pushed the moon?edit on 13-3-2011 by Shadow Herder because: (no reason given)
Anomalies in the Solar System
Dittus, Hansjoerg
37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 13-20 July 2008, in Montréal, Canada., p.717
Several observations show unexplained phenomena in our solar system. These observations are e.g. the Pioneer Anomaly, an unexplained constant acceleration of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, the Flyby Anomaly, an unexplained increase of the velocity of a series of spacecraft after Earth gravity assists, the recently reported increase of the Astronomical Unit defined by the distance of the planets from the Sun by approximately 10 m per century, the quadrupole and octupole anomaly which describes the correlation of the low l contributions of the Cosmic Microwave Background to the orientation of the Solar system. Lacking any explanation until now, these phenomena are still investigated intensively. In my talk I will discuss the present status of those investigations and the attempts to find reasonable explantions.
Secular increase of the astronomical unit and perihelion precessions as tests of the Dvali–Gabadadze–Porrati multi-dimensional braneworld scenario
Lorenzo Iorio JCAP09(2005)006 doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2005/09/006
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Lorenzo Iorio
Viale Unità di Italia 68, 70125, Bari, Italy
E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract. An unexpected secular increase of the astronomical unit, the length scale of the Solar System, has recently been reported by three different research groups (Krasinsky and Brumberg, Pitjeva, Standish). The latest JPL measurements amount to 7 ± 2 m cy−1. At present, there are no explanations able to accommodate such an observed phenomenon, either in the realm of classical physics or in the usual four-dimensional framework of the Einsteinian general relativity. The Dvali–Gabadadze–Porrati braneworld scenario, which is a multi-dimensional model of gravity aimed at providing an explanation of the observed cosmic acceleration without dark energy, predicts, among other things, a perihelion secular shift, due to Lue and Starkman, of 5 × 10−4 arcsec cy−1 for all the planets of the Solar System. It yields a variation of about 6 m cy−1 for the Earth–Sun distance which is compatible with the observed rate of change for the astronomical unit. The recently measured corrections to the secular motions of the perihelia of the inner planets of the Solar System are in agreement with the predicted value of the Lue–Starkman effect for Mercury, Mars and, at a slightly worse level, the Earth.
A potentially viable Newtonian candidate would be
a trans-Plutonian massive object (Planet X/Nemesis/Tyche) since it, actually,
would affect e with a non-vanishing long-term variation. On the other hand,
the values for the physical and orbital parameters of such a hypothetical body
required to obtain the right order of magnitude for e˙ are completely unrealistic.
Moreover, they are in neat disagreement with both the most recent theoretical
scenarios envisaging the existence of a distant, planetary-sized body and with
the model-independent constraints on them dynamically inferred from planetary
motions. Thus, the issue of finding a satisfactorily explanation for the anomalous
behavior of the Moon’s eccentricity remains open.
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Originally posted by pazcat
Originally posted by theabsolutetruth
reply to post by Xcellante
Brian Cox also denies there could be intelligent life in the universe other than humans!!!!!
No he does not, in fact he is quite open to the suggestion. He certainly believes in microbial forms of life existing and is aware the building blocks are all throughout the universe.
He just suggests that intelligent life elsewhere is not a given.edit on 13-3-2011 by pazcat because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by McGinty
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
I remember hearing that when the apollo took place having them land and take off was said to have moved the moon. Last couple of years they shot 'missiles' at it for tests.
Could it be that man has pushed the moon?edit on 13-3-2011 by Shadow Herder because: (no reason given)
That's a wacky, but excellent theory.
it would explain why no one's been back there and , as you say, could suggest that the missiles fired at the Moon could've in fact been attempts to correct its orbit. Would appear they failed....