Are Flyby Anomalies an ASTG Phenomenon?

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that the Azimuthally Symmetric Theory of Gravitation (ASTG) can explain flyby anomalies and derives the empirical formula of these anomalies, providing a physical basis for previously phenomenological observations.

Contribution

The paper shows that ASTG can account for flyby anomalies and derives the empirical formula with a physical explanation, linking it to gravitational theory.

Findings

ASTG explains flyby anomalies naturally.

Derivation of Anderson et al.'s empirical formula from ASTG.

ASTG links flyby anomalies to gravitational effects.

Abstract

This reading expounds with expediency on the recently proposed Azimuthally Symmetric Theory of Gravitation (ASTG) set-up earlier. At its inspection, it was demonstrated that the ASTG is capable (among others solar anomalies) of explaining the precession of the perihelion of solar planets. In the present, we show that the ASTG is capable of explaining the puzzling observations of flyby anomalies, i.e. the anomalous asymptotic speed increases of the osculating hyperbolic speed excess. It is shown that these flyby anomalies occur naturally in the ASTG. We derive the empirical formula proposed by Anderson et al. in 2008, which up to now has no physical or foundational basis except that experience suggest it. If the ASTG model is correct, then for the first time the Anderson et al. formula is given a physical meaning.