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Special relativity may account for the spacecraft flyby anomalies

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-03-16 v3 Astrophysics

Abstract

The empirical formula proposed by J. D. Anderson et al. [1] to reproduce the data on the Earth flyby anomalies is derived from special relativity (SR). The transverse Doppler shift together with the addition of velocities account for the Doppler data. Time dilation together with the addition of velocities account for the ranging data.

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@article{arxiv.0809.1888,
  title  = {Special relativity may account for the spacecraft flyby anomalies},
  author = {Jean Paul Mbelek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1888},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

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

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