On force-field models of the spacecraft flyby anomaly
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-03-03 v1
Abstract
Recently, Anderson et al. published an empirical prediction formula for the so far unexplained parts of the velocity changes of spacecrafts during Earth flybys. In the framework of a perturbational approach, we show that there is no velocity-independent force field of the Earth - in addition to its Newtonian gravity field - that is to reproduce this formula. However, we give examples for fields modeling exactly the flyby anomaly which are quadratic functions of the velocity of the spacecraft.
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@article{arxiv.0903.0109,
title = {On force-field models of the spacecraft flyby anomaly},
author = {Wolfgang Hasse and Emrah Birsin and Philipp Haehnel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0109},
year = {2009}
}