Experimental and Theoretical Challenges of Creating Electrostatic Orbits in Weightlessness

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #146.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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In January 2006, a team of students from Rhodes College was awarded flight time aboard NASA’s specialized C-9B aircraft known as the “Weightless Wonder” to perform an experiment in microgravity. This experiment demonstrated a prediction of Coulomb’s Law that two oppositely charged spheres should orbit each other under certain conditions. However a number of issues complicate this demonstration such as polarization effects (which affect the nature of the inverse square law and thus the stability of orbits), fluctuations in the microgravity conditions, and the effects of air pressure and humidity on charge leakage. This poster will discuss how we resolved these issues to successfully perform our experiment under the mentoring of Brent Hoffmeister and Shubho Banerjee.

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