Bjarne
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What about satellites in polar orbits? What keeps them from decelerating due to your hypothetical RAM?
Ulysses was such a "satellite" - orbiting around / above the poles of the Sun and hence affected by MUCH faster speed as a satellite around the Earth, and hence effected by much stronger RAM, and still the effect is almost insignificant after a decade, - BUT strong enough to that there where reasonable doubt. - Read this >>>
The JPL team pointed to data from the Ulysses and Galileo spacecraft which suggest a similar effect may be at work on these probes. However, it has been hard to draw firm conclusions in the case of Ulysses and Galileo partly because they have not travelled as far from the Sun as have Pioneers 10 and 11.
Sourse http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclo...r_anomaly.html
We are talking about really small effect - especially when objects are in orbit, - simply because small period of acc, is NOT the same as constant acc.... - BUT it is still there....
The best experiment is to send probes out of the solar system, these will decelerate constant, - (if not space wind from the gravity assist cancel our / counteract this)
So the best possible test scene is long away from everything, - and this is where the Pioneer probes was proving: - RAM is a fact.
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