On May 2, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote:
I had been trying to figure out if Pioneer is currently heading
closer or
farther away from the galactic center. Do you know?
Hoyt Stearns
Pioneer 10 is heading toward Aldebaran in Taurus. Pioneer 11 is
headed toward Aquila
(The Eagle), northwest of the constellation of Sagittarius. The
galactic center is located in the direction of Sagittarius, so
Pioneer 11 is headed in its general direction, but way north of it.
The galactic center is located near the radio source Sagittarius A*,
which is located at 17h45m40.04s −29°00′28.1″, about 29 degrees
below the ecliptic. Taurus is away from the Sagittarius, so Pioneer
10 is headed away from the galactic center.
By calling the ambient gravimagnetic field "galactic" I did not mean
to imply the galactic center is the source of the ambient
gravimagnetic field. In fact, I wrote in:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/SolarLunarGK.pdf
"The cumulative gravimagnetic field of the sun and moon do not come
within 11
orders of magnitude of the ambient gravimagnetic field in the
vicinity of Earth
required to account for the precession of the Earth."
"Momentarily ignoring the many possibilities for error, this leads
automatically to
the wild speculation that we have a powerful unseen spinning neighbor
that has
been around for a long time, longer than the solar system. The plane
of the solar
system (the ecliptic) is not aligned with the plane of the Milky Way,
so it is unlikely
the galactic core is involved. The axis of precession is aligned with
the poles of the
ecliptic, thus the ambient gravimagnetic field must be also, on
average. We may
have a dark partner in our part of the galaxy."
"If the dark partner were 150 light years away it would have to have
[(1.551 x 10^-11
i Hz)/(9.526x10^-23 i Hz)]/(150 ly/1.496x10^8 km)^3 = 1.39x10^32
times the
gravimagnetic dipole moment of the sun."
Regards,
Horace Heffner
