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Spacecraft Deviations Near Earth Explained Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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A mysterious phenomenon causing small, unexpected deviations in robotic spacecraft trajectories near Earth may be a step closer to an explanation. Scientists have come up with a mathematical formula that successfully reproduces all the known occurrences of the effect, and they suspect the Earth's rotation may somehow be to blame. Scientists first noticed something amiss in the motion of spacecraft passing near Earth when the Galileo spacecraft... (source: space.newscientist.com)
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