Solar eclipse image taken aboard Gemini 12. Click on image for
full size Courtesy of NASA Can an Eclipse Change Gravity?
(Updated!) News story originally written on September 20, 1999
It will take many more months before the verdict is in, but
scientists are already contemplating some new information. The
last solar eclipse of the millennium served as a great
opportunity to test a phenomenon discovered by Maurice Allais in
1954. Allais believed that a solar eclipse can affect Earth's
gravity. David Doever of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre in
Huntsville, and his partner, Ron Koczor, have received most of
the data. Pendulums were set up in various countries, with some
in the path of the eclipse and others not. Some of the
preliminary results are interesting. Video cameras taped the
pendulum movements before, during and after the solar eclipse.
Although no change was viewed in the pendulums outside of the
eclipse path, two different sites in Europe revealed exciting
results. These researchers, which were in