"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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Sounds like he's talking about the Aether Theory without actually
mentioning the Aether here.


No, its got nothing whatsoever to do with that.


Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: The Clue That Could Explain The
Fly-By Anomalies
"Last year, we looked at an idea from Stephen Adler at Princeton
University, that suggested the change in velocity could caused by
collisions between the spacecraft and particles of dark matter. Adler even
calculated the kind of distribution of dark matter particles that would
explain the observed changes in velocity--a kind of halo of them around
Earth. "
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24232/?a=f

Yousuf Khan

Funny that the earth is surrounded by enough of these to noticeably slow a
spaceship, but none has even been observed on earth. I wonder if the paper
has an explanation of this curious fact ...