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New Theory About the Source of Pioneer Space Probe Deceleration
First time accepted submitter deathcow writes "After forty years, a fresh perspective on old Pioneer data leads to new conclusions as to why the Pioneer probes are decelerating. Many theories to the slowing probes have persisted over the years — was it gravity? some type of unforeseen radiation? dark matter? Thanks to the data backup preservation efforts of a NASA Ames Research engineer, mountains of old telemetry data were still available for studying this curious anomaly."
The article is way too long.
No kidding...and written like one of those awful Dan Brown novels... ("we'll tell you in the next paragraph, honest!")
No sig today...
about the same as the backward push your car experiences in reaction to the photons spit out by its high-beam headlights.
Damn, I'm gonna start driving without my headlights on to get better gas mileage!
Keep them on and drive backwards.
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And if you're reading it on Slashdot, chances are that Slashdot has also covered it before.
My money is on interstellar photo radar.
Tomorrow is another day...
Err, if JFC woke up already, I think we'd be pretty safe in keeping that religion going :-)
Probably I missed some variables that have to be taken into account here.
You forgot the thermal radiation asymmetry. Don't worry; you're in good company.