Now there is plenty of Dark Matter near the Sun

On Aug 12, 2:14*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 8/12/12 3:51 PM, Brad Guth wrote:









On Aug 12, 11:02 am, Sam Wormley wrote:
Good question, Yousuf. Thanks for raising the issue. Scientific
Mysteries very often precede scientific understanding.

Survey finds no hint of dark matter near Solar System

http://www.nature.com/news/survey-fi...-matter-near-s....

Where’s the dark matter? Not here, befuddled astronomers find

http://www.world-science.net/otherne...darkmatter.htm

Dark-Matter Mystery: Why Are 400 Stars Moving as if There's Nothing There?

Read mohttp://www.time.com/time/health/arti...113093,00.html

Plenty of Dark Matter near Solar System

http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/article00518.html

Is the Sun surrounded by dark matter? New simulation tries to answer one
of the universe's biggest mysteries (and the answer: probably)

Read mohttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...Is-Sun-surroun...

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Yousuf Khan writes:
Coming off of a study just back in April of this year which said that
they could find no hint of Dark Matter near the Sun, now a duelling
study finds that there is plenty of Dark Matter near the Sun.

The earlier study appears to have been wrong because one of its
fundamental assumptions is false. The new study is at
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0015
The fourth paragraph of the introduction gives some of the history
with citations.

What I gather from all this is that it's a really hard problem with
current data, but better data should come along eventually.

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On 14/08/2012 1:40 PM, Steve Willner wrote:
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In ,
Yousuf writes:
Coming off of a study just back in April of this year which said that
they could find no hint of Dark Matter near the Sun, now a duelling
study finds that there is plenty of Dark Matter near the Sun.

The earlier study appears to have been wrong because one of its
fundamental assumptions is false. The new study is at
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0015
The fourth paragraph of the introduction gives some of the history
with citations.

Well, we all know one study will challenge another study's fundamental
assumption. The first study is probably challenging the latter study's
fundamental assumption too.

Yousuf Khan