Advances in Astrophysics

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DOI: 10.22606/adap.2016.11002

• Dimitrie Olenici^*
  Astronomical Observatory Department, Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Romania

During the Mercury transit on 11 November 2006, the inferior conjunction of Mercury on 14 July 2009, and the occultation of Mercury on 17 November 2015, a series of experiments were carried out to check for anomalous pendulum behaviour. The results confirm the appearance of anomalous variations in the speed of precession of the plane of oscillation of the pendulum (the so-called Allais effect), anomalous variations of the period of oscillation of the pendulum (the so called Jeverdan-Rusu-Antonescu effect), anomalous variations of the proportion between the major and minor semi axes of the ellipse of oscillation of the pendulum, and anomalies in the chirality of revolution of the pendulum around its ellipse of oscillation.

Paraconical, pendulum, syzygy, eclipse, conjunction, opposition, torsind, Allais, effect, precession.

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