On Tue, 22 May 2001, Doug Pensinger wrote:
> I just have to express my enthusiasm for the list. Not only is volume way up,
> but several long lost members showed up today. Hi Andrea! Where ya been?
Studying for and taking my orals, then taking some well-deserved time off
with my girlfriend.
> Hey, I'm sure this is old news to you but what is your take on the anomalous
> acceleration measured on some of our spacecraft? For reference:
> http://w10.lanl.gov:80/external/news/releases/archive/98-140.html. I think
> it's something to do with red shift measurements over extremely long
> distances. (I knew that would stir you up 8^) )
No, those are two different things.
The "anomalous acceleration" is a local thing, from Pioneer 10 and 11, and that's
old news which was resolved a couple years back but I don't recall how.
The distance-redshift thing is another thing altogether; you're probably thinking
of the "dark energy" or cosmological constant results, which give you deviations
from a straightforward Hubble law; you can get values for lambda by measuring
supernovae Ia, which are all about the same brightness, at high redshift.
--
Andrea Leistra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The data indicate acoustical oscillations in the cosmic
microwave background radiation at the surface of last
scattering. Run for your lives!!!!"
-Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 04/30/01
