Special relativity may account for the spacecraft flyby anomalies

Authors: Jean Paul Mbelek

(Submitted on 11 Sep 2008 (v1), last revised 12 Sep 2008 (this version, v2))

Abstract: Recently, J. D. Anderson et al. [1] have proposed an empirical formula that accurately reproduces all the Earth flyby anomalies observed yet. Here, we show that special relativity (SR) transverse Doppler shift together with the addition of velocities may reproduce that formula.

Comments: 3 pages, no figure, error corrected and approximation improved in section 2

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Astrophysics (astro-ph)

Cite as: arXiv:0809.1888v2 [gr-qc]

Submission history

From: Jean-Paul Mbelek [view email]

[v1] Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:51:53 GMT (71kb)

[v2] Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:41:55 GMT (72kb)

http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1888