Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

and my senior officers and I need to continue our discussionof that situation."With that he opened the door to the private space andushered his senior people in. He thought they should probablyget a theoretician in with them, but they could always call oneif they needed."So what do we have here?" he asked as they took seatsaround the table. In here he also had down rotated, so Sol wasright behind his chair at the head of the table. They wereworking their way thru a rather dense veil of snowflakes atthe moment and some were passing by only a few thousandmiles away so they hurtled by like they had in mid voyage."First thing to keep in mind is that these studies aren'tverified," Heymon told him as he settled into his chair."What is most questionable?""That these signals have anything to do with theimpactors," Heymon said. "No one else has duplicatedDarryl's work and found that the impactors are in fact beingguided, much less found changes in that guidance. A onepercent error in our mass estimates could also account for theperturbations we see in the dark bodies' orbits. And that's ifthose perturbations are real. They are at the limits of ourinstrumentation."He turned to Ava, "What does Thom think he's seeing.""Sir, I hardly want to answer that question. Even thoughwe aren't getting along right now, I think Thom is a good and263