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Old 21-July-2005, 11:44 AM
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Default CMB radiation and the solar system

There's been some debate about distortions in the CMB radiation that coincide with the movement of the solar system through the galaxy. Here:

http://www.astronomy.com/ASY/default...=a&id=2640

I think a rebuttal to this is that it may have been a statistical fluke, i.e. the CMB radiation happens to have fluctuations that coincide with the motion of the solar system. It seems fairly illogical to me.

But I wonder, would it be possible to test this? What if you put a space probe in a fairly far orbit around the sun, and then took a picture on one side of the sun, and then a second on the other side. Would the speed be enough to make a measurable difference?
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