Thomas van Flandern ( eng. Thomas C. van Flandern , June 26, 1940 - January 9, 2009) - American astronomer.
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Born in Cleveland , Ohio (USA). He graduated from Xavier University in 1962, continued his studies at Georgetown University . Until 1983, he worked at the United States Naval Observatory ; studied the parameters of the orbit of the moon . In 1969, he received a doctorate in astronomy from Yale University .
After it was assumed in 1978 that Herkulin’s asteroid (532) had a natural satellite , he defended the point of view that asteroid satellites are the rule and not the exception [3] [4] (which was almost unanimously rejected by the scientific community ). The satellite was first discovered in 1993 at the Ida asteroid by the Galileo spacecraft .
Together with R. S. Harrington he defended the hypothesis that the high eccentricity of the orbit of Mercury and the small rotational moment of Mercury and Venus are explained by the fact that Mercury was a satellite of Venus and was lost to it [5] . In 1993, he developed an original model of the solar system.
Also known for his book Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets (1999), which indicated that the speed of gravitational waves exceeds the speed of light [6] ; that some structures on Mars are of artificial origin; that comets with asteroids are remnants of an exploding planet [7] ; denied the Big Bang theory [8] . He was a GPS technology consultant.
Died January 9, 2009 in Seattle .
Tom Van Flandern was a member of the International Astronomical Union , the American Astronomical Society and several other scientific organizations.
Since 1963, he was married to Barbara Ann Weber ( born Barbara Ann Weber ). Had four children.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Obituary: Thomas C. Van Flandern (1940-2009) - American Astronomical Society .
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- F van Flandern, TC Satellites of Minor Planets: a New Frontier for Celestial Mechanics // Celestial Mechanics. - 1980. - Vol. 22. - p. 79-80. - .
- ↑ van Flandern, TC Minor Planet Satellites // Science. - 1981. - Vol. 211. - p. 297-298. - .
- ↑ van Flandern, TC; Harrington, RS A Dynamic Investigation of the Conjecture that Mercury is an Escaped Satellite of Venus // Icarus. - 1976. - Vol. 28. - P. 435-440. - .
- ↑ The Speed of Gravity Archive copy dated January 10, 2015 on the Wayback Machine (eng.)
- ↑ I worked with Sitchin on finding the planet behind the Kuiper belt .
- ↑ Arp, HC; van Flandern, T. The case against the big bang // Physics Letters A. - 1992. - Vol. 164. - p. 263-273. - .
Sources
- Obituary for Dr. Thomas C Van Flandern (eng.)
- Tom C. Van Flandern (1940–2009) (English)
Literature
- van Flandern, T. Dark matter, missing planets and new comets. (Paradoxes resolved, origins illuminated). - North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA (USA), 1993. - ISBN 1-55643-155-4 .
- Tom Van Flandern . What the global GPS navigation system tells us about relativity