Planet Mercury in the news next week
FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
The planet Mercury will be in the headlines a week from today, as scientists and engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab try to put NASA’s Messenger spacecraft into orbit around it. If they’re successful, Messenger will stay for a year of scientific study. It would be the first time a spacecraft from Earth has orbited the planet. Mercury will be visible to the naked eye next week, in a close conjunction with Jupiter, low in the west after sunset, Sunday through Wednesday.
(IMAGE: NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Institution)
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Categories: From the Sun's print edition, Sky Notes
Categories: From the Sun's print edition, Sky Notes
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Dear Sirs
I consider that I should inform you about the coming catastrophe of the American space vehicle
MESSENGER which is to occur on March 18, 2011. On that day or some days later
MESSENGER instead of reaching the orbit of Mercury according to NASA plans will fly to the
Sun and will burn down in the Sun corona. From my point of view the reason of the failure of
this mission will be the fact that the Sun gravity acceleration is more than 11000 times as much
as the known one. Due to this reason the Japanese space vehicle AKATSUKI couldn’t reach
Venus orbit on December 7, 2010 supposedly because of the wedged return valve in one of the
fuel tubes. More than 20 space vehicles from 36 sent to Mars have failed because Mars gravity
acceleration is more than 3,5 times as little that it is considered by NASA. This depressing
conclusion has been obtained from the calculations made with the help of the new gravitation
theory worked out by us and which physicists don’t want to recognize. If my suggestion isn’t
proved I will only have to express my excuse for the trouble I caused. However, if MESSENGER
doesn’t reach Mercury orbit it will mean that we are to be witnesses of new failures of space
missions and the losses of billions of dollars earned by the hard work of American tax payers.
Sincerely,
Oleg E.Tsiganok
Posted by: Oleg E.Tsiganok | March 14, 2011 3:41 PM