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09-01-2013, 03:12 PM
An article by Viktor Toth and Slava Turyshev that appears in the December 2012 issue
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum
Magazine entitled "Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly" also forms
the magazine's cover story.
By the time Pioneer 10 and 11 passed beyond Jupiter and Saturn, their navigators began
to notice that both spacecraft were slowing down more than predicted by a minuscule
amount, a deceleration equivalent to one ten-billionth of the acceleration of gravity
on Earth.
Hundreds of papers were written to try and explain the anomaly. Was it due to some
new physics or was the explanation more mundane, perhaps something to do with
the mechanics of the spacecraft themselves? Nothing seemed to quite add up.
Now the authors believe they have found the answer.
Story available online here -
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/finding-the-source-of-the-pioneer-anomaly
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum
Magazine entitled "Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly" also forms
the magazine's cover story.
By the time Pioneer 10 and 11 passed beyond Jupiter and Saturn, their navigators began
to notice that both spacecraft were slowing down more than predicted by a minuscule
amount, a deceleration equivalent to one ten-billionth of the acceleration of gravity
on Earth.
Hundreds of papers were written to try and explain the anomaly. Was it due to some
new physics or was the explanation more mundane, perhaps something to do with
the mechanics of the spacecraft themselves? Nothing seemed to quite add up.
Now the authors believe they have found the answer.
Story available online here -
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/finding-the-source-of-the-pioneer-anomaly