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letter to Sec. of Navy (USA)
open letter to the Secretary of the Navy (USA)
To: the Hon. Donald C. Winter, Ph.D.
Secretary of the Navy
Washington, D. C., USA
From: Joseph C. Keller, M. D.
POB 9122
Ames, Iowa 50014 USA
Date: May 15, 2007
Subject: planetary discovery
Dear Secretary Winter:
Please order someone with a big telescope to look for planets near these coordinates:
RA 11h 26m Decl -8.9 deg (J2000)
At 00:42 on March 25, 2007, UT, amateur astronomer Joan Genebriera of Barcelona, Spain, using a 16” telescope and electronic camera at Tacande Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Is., aiming her telescope at coordinates I provided, recorded objects near
RA 11 26 22.2 Decl -9 04 59 and
RA 11 26 31.8 Decl -9 00 11
These objects seem to be identical with objects found on the online scan of the1954 (48” Schmidt camera) Palomar sky survey plate “POSS-I Red” at these coordinates:
RA 11 02 25.2 Decl -5 56 11 and
RA 11 03 12.4 Decl -5 58 09
and the scan of the 1986 (also 48” Schmidt) Australian sky survey plate “UK Red” at:
RA 11 16 51.8 Decl -7 49 40 and
RA 11 16 56.1 Decl -7 55 14
Assuming a mass ratio of 0.865: 0.135, and a distance, from the sun, of 197.75 Astronomical Units, the center of gravity seems to be in orbit around the sun. The eccentricity of the orbit is < 0.009 with 90% confidence. (The eccentricity of Neptune’s orbit is 0.009.) Though uncommon, double star orbits of this size and eccentricity are known. Known double stars are observationally biased toward systems of more equal mass.
The apparent period of the orbit equals the period of advancement of the 5:2 Jupiter:Saturn resonance, to the accuracy to which the latter is known. Correction for the eccentricities of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s orbits shows that my newly discovered objects lie, in projection, within a fraction of a degree of one of the five mean Jupiter:Saturn resonance points.
The objects lie only two degrees prograde from the positive Cosmic Microwave Background dipole. The dipole lies on the objects’ orbit to within a fraction of a degree, the accuracy to which the dipole is known. This is consistent with a new, gravitational theory of the CMB, which would revolutionize our understanding of the relationship between gravity and electricity.
For reasonable masses, correction for the tidal gravity of the objects, reduces the variation of the Pioneer Anomalous Acceleration. The net Anomalous Acceleration becomes fairly smoothly decreasing with distance from the sun.
I think that despite the likely 0.01 solar mass for the combined objects, they fail to disrupt the solar system, because small shifts in the orbital planes of the known planets, counter the torque. Depending on composition, the objects might have smaller diameters than predicted by published giant planet theory.
The first photos taken in the search for these objects were by amateur astronomer Robert Turner of England, using the 14” telescope and electronic camera of the Bradford College Observatory, also on Tenerife, Canary Is. Amateur astronomer Steve Riley of California, USA, took many photos using an 11” telescope and electronic camera at Buena Vista Observatory in California. The objects are near the detection limit for all these observers. Known stars of magnitude equal to the objects, often are absent or distorted in the photos. Despite these problems, Turner’s later photos, Genebriera’s, and especially Riley’s, show several alternative or additional detections of the objects.
Sincerely,
Joseph C. Keller, M. D.
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