Chaotic Orbital Decay due to the Dust Frictional Force in the Oort Cloud causes Comet formation
- From: Roger Bagula <rlbagulatftn@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:13:05 GMT
> http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/Anomalous/Acceleration.html
> Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11:
> Dust Density in the Kuiper Belt
> Paul Marmet
>
> Abstract.
> A previous analysis of radio Doppler and ranging data from distant Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, indicated an apparent anomalous acceleration. Several hypotheses involving new physical phenomena have been proposed to explain that apparent anomaly. This paper shows that the anomalous acceleration of the spacecraft Pioneer 10 and 11 in the direction of the Sun is due to the presence of dust in the Kuiper belt, which has been ignored in the calculation. These data provide the first direct measurement of dust density in the Kuiper belt, which is 1.38 x 10-19 gr/cc.
>
Reading the article by Paul Marmet after having been searching for an extra-solar mass
that was the source of comet formation made me
wonder if there wasn't another more easily justified way that comets could form.
An alternative to an force by an extra-solar body in the theory of comet formation is that of apogee saturation due
to the dust force aggregation of a Oort body as the reason behind comet origination.
The slowing of an Oort body due to frictional force of the Marmet type with Oort cloud dust and the continued
mass aggregation that results would one day bring the orbital velocity to zero at apogee
such that from that point
the comet would begin to fall toward the sun
gaining velocity and momentum in a cometary hyperbolic orbit.
The analogy is to a snow ball rolling up hill until it is so big that it slows to a stop, wavers,
and begins to fall back down the hill, gaining momentum as it falls.
With the uniform density of dust friction quoted in the Marmet paper on the Pioneer 10 and 11 probe
s such an orbital decay becomes an inevitable part of the dust aggregation dynamics of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt region of space.
How can we observe if this kind of force is actually operating on
large objects in this region of space? The only body in this region of space
whose orbital dynamics have been studied for a significant period is Pluto.
The precession of the Pluto orbit would show such a slowing trend long term.
Precession of other Kuiper belt planetoid orbits would also show this effect if it is a real effect.
Last night I realized that as an aggregation effect
the prediction is that the date of appearance
and size should be a fractal power law
with a log-log linear plot.
Indeed the system is very like other Per Bak sand pile / self-organizing critical processes,
so much so that I looked up comets in all my fractal and chaos texts
to see if I hadn't forgotten that someone else had seem this probability,
but it appears that no one has.
It seems so plain once you get the idea!
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