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The flyby anomaly: A case for strong gravitomagnetism ?

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arxiv 1505.06884 v1 pith:ITHP5NZK submitted 2015-05-26 gr-qc

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In the last two decades an anomalous variation in the asymptotic velocity of spacecraft performing a flyby manoeuvre around Earth has been discovered through careful Doppler tracking and orbital analysis. No viable hypothesis for a conventional explanation of this effect has been proposed and its origin remains unexplained. In this paper we discuss a strong transversal component of the gravitomagnetic field as a possible source of the flyby anomaly. We show that the perturbations induced by such a field could fit the anomalies both in sign and order of magnitude. But, although the secular contributions to the Gravity Probe B experimental results and the Lense-Thirring effect in geodynamics satellites can be made null, the detailed orbital evolution is easily in conflict with such an enhanced gravitomagnetic effect.

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  1. Flyby Anomaly in the Variation Principle of General Relativity

    gr-qc 2024-11 reject novelty 3.0 of 10

    The claimed GR derivation of the flyby anomaly is invalid: the diagonalized metric is not the Lense-Thirring metric and the final formula is tuned to match the empirical law.

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