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Perhaps the Polar Lander and Beagle did!

Does anyone know of a computer program on the web that Physics Forums members could use to input values and get a rough idea of how accurate or sensible their ideas on global warming are? Is there a software disc on sale somewhere? Could people on this website develop a computer program? There...

The tunguska event has no precedent in recent human history.If it did have one we would have heard in folklore of tidal waves,forests being flattened,towns,cities etc.There would even be craters in the ground formed recently.Did humans do something that enabled tunguska to happen.I have heard...

If NASA haven't been getting their sums wrong,magnetism and electricity aren't the answer,Einstein's theory of relativity hasn't got the answer,quantum mechanics hasn't,there are no thermal effects in space that can account for the anomaly,no internal factors on pioneer,no unusual theories...

As a rough estmate, a rock with a density similar to water at 273K, would have to be 1 km from pioneer with a radius of about 100m to produce an acceleration toward the Sun of 10^-8 m/s/s. Perhaps there are lots of these rocks acting one after another along pioneer's route to keep the...

I suspected this could be the case and my suggestion is unlikely because we would expect to see a little of the charging on satellites near to Earth and perhaps charging of the Earth and effect on the Earth's magnetic field and position in space! I read that the Mars Polar Lander and the...

I read that the Mars Polar Lander and the Mars Beagle mission both ended disastrously and in the same region of space relative to the sun ( decemebers 4 years apart 1999 and 2003).Did rocks in space hit these craft? Are rocks in space causing the anomalous accelerations of pioneer and galileo?

Sorry,the writing above doesn't make sense and should read: For a steady force with time then if velocity is constant, charge must increase as magnetic field B decreases.B gets smaller with the cube of distance from the Sun. So we need the charge on pioneer to be proportional to the cube of...

I don't think this is likely now, given that the sunspot cycle -also associated with magnetic changes in the sun -is only eleven years. If a fixed solar hot/cold cycle of 100,000 years has always existed throughout history but has been suppressed by some phenomenon on the Earth until 1...

I disagree with this. FORCE = qvB for charge moving through a magnetic field. For a steady force with time then if velocity is constant charge must increase as magnetic field B decreases.B gets smaller with the cube of distance from the Sun. So we need charge on pioneer to be inversely...

The beryllium 10 may be increasing because of emission of more gamma rays by the sun and not because of magnetic field collapse on Earth.Also I 'm not sure how accurate the Beryllium data is given that Be10 is only found in trace amounts. The 100,000 year cycle may not be present earlier in the...

Because the interglacial/glacial cycle has a frequency of 100,0000 years for the last 1 million years there have been 10 such cycles.If the cause of them is an oscillating core of the sun , alternately expanding and cooling and then contracting and heating up, then we would expect there to be...

The fact that the planets do not seem to have this anomalous acceleration suggests that the solution lies with things that are metallic - like pioneer 11 and hence can conduct electricity and interact with magnetic fields.Electrons escaping from the sun and moving close to the speed of light and...

I think the only realistic possibility is that pioneer becomes electrically charged more and more the further it moves from the sun by either friction with dust particles/charges in space or by its solar panels becoming positively charged by x rays,gamma rays and other energetic particles...