Satellite

Biography

Biography: V.I. Ferronsky

Abstract

The effects of the Earth oblateness and the related problems of irregularity in the rotation and the planet’s pole motion and also the continuous changes in the gravity and electromagnetic field have a direct relation to the solution of a wide range of scientific and practical problems in the Earth dynamics, geophysics, geology, geodesy, oceanography, hydrology and climatology. The satellite data play decisive role in understanding physics of the problem. It was found by interpretation of the observed geodetic satellite orbit data that the Earth and the Moon move being not in hydrostatic equilibrium. This is a fundamental conclusion important for study dynamics of celestial bodies. The satellite orbits data for solving the nature of the Earth oblateness problem are interpreted on the basis of the known in celestial mechanics theory of expansion of the gravity potential of a body by spherical functions. It was found by interpretation that the Earth is a traxial body. The differences between the major and minor equatorial semi-axes a and b was found to be as а = 6378160 m, b = 6377504 м, and a – b = 656 м. The next step in that direction is discovery of kinetic energy loss of the Earth and other celestial bodies. The ratio of the kinetic energy to the potential one is ~ 1/300, that is the same as its oblateness. Such a ratio does not satisfy the fundamental condition of the virial theorem. In fact, the other planets, namely, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, exhibit the same behavior. But for Mercury, Venus, the Moon and the Sun, the potential energy exceeds their kinetic energy by 104 times. Since the bodies in reality exist in equilibrium, the answer was found that the kinetic energy of the body’s interacted elementary particles is not taking into account. In this connection the generalized virial theorem was solved and the energy as an effect of the particles interaction instead of the vectorial force was introduced. On that basis hydrostatic equilibrium of an orbiting body by dynamical equilibrium was changed.