Post by jonbain on Mar 16, 2023 15:02:58 GMT
NASA claims they 'deliberately' ended the mission
by 'crashing' Cassini into Saturn.
Just months before Saturn reached aphelion.
That makes ZERO sense.
Saturn reaches aphelion every 29.5 years,
so why end the mission just months before the measurement?
Its a vital measurement too, because Saturn's orbit is notoriously
non-elliptical with a deviation of as much as 1 full degree each orbit.
And the reason for the crash was not engineering.
Those poor guys always get the blame.
It was a mathematical navigational error,
because Horizon Ephemeris has errors in its velocity vectors.
This is because it does not use a 3D N-Body Algorithm,
instead, mere statistics.
Details here:
Now I want to know,
In order to corroborate what I am claiming,
are any of you willing to do some 3D Pythagoras?
Its just a simple bit of math, with quite BIG numbers, though.
Those details are on the link,
or I could post the question here, if anyone
cares to do some REAL math for a change.