Physics – General Physics
Scientific paper
2009-04-02
Physics
General Physics
46 pages, 10 figures, version 3 reformulates the time retarded theory and produces improved results
Scientific paper
In 2008 a group of NASA scientists reported an anomalous change in the speed of six spacecraft flybys of the Earth. The reported speed change for the NEAR spacecraft flyby is 13.46+-0.01 mm/s. It is known that general relativity theory reduces to classical time-retarded electromagnetic field theory in the linearized approximation. This report shows that time-retarded field theory applied to the Earth's transverse gravitational field gives rise to a small change in the speed of a spacecraft during a flyby. The speed change depends on the time dependence of the transverse gravitational field, which generates an induction field that is proportional to the time derivative of the transverse gravitational field. If the corresponding speed for the induction field is set equal to (4.130+-0.003) times the Earth's equatorial rotational surface speed, and the speed of the Earth's gravitational field is set equal to (1.060+-0.001) times the vacuum speed of light, the calculated value for the speed change for the NEAR flyby agrees exactly with the observed value. Similar results are found for the remaining five flybys.
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