Voyager 1 Spotted from Earth with radio antennas

[Mark Whittington]

That's an interesting assertion, Phil.  Is there somewhere convenient that
I can read more about this?



On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Phil <philmt59 at aol.com> wrote:

> "The initial observations, which were made on February 21, placed Voyager
> very near, but not precisely at its predicted location. The difference was
> a few tenths of an arcsecond. An arcsecond is the apparent size of a penny
> as seen from 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) away. The second observations on June
> 1 produced similar results."
>
>
> This observation is very interesting because the same thing has been noted
> with the Pioneer probes. The small error could be explained easily if
> Newton's theory of gravitation were to be modified with a small
> second-order component. The significance of this is that, if it were
> accepted that Newton's Law is merely a (very good) approximation, the need
> to find the the so-far undetectable "dark matter" in the Universe goes away
> - we don't need the extra mass to explain our astronomical observations. It
> astonishes me that the vast majority of scientists still insist that
> Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is absolute and exact.
>
> Phil M1GWZ
>
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> On 17 Sep 2013, at 03:51, 3t3 wrote:
>
> ALCON -
>
> Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long
> Baseline Array (VLBA) and Green Bank Telescope (GBT) spotted the faint
> radio glow from NASA's famed Voyager 1 spacecraft -- the most distant
> man-made object.
>
>
> www.space-travel.com/reports/Voyager_1_Spotted_from_Earth_with_NRAOs_VLBA_and_GBT_Telescopes_999.html
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