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Old 03-June-2008, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by papageno View Post
The probes are accelerating away from the Sun.
The original article said this:

These newfound enigmas join the so-called "Pioneer anomaly" as hints that unexplained forces may appear to act on spacecraft.

A decade ago, after rigorous analyses, anomalies were seen with the identical Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft as they hurtled out of the solar system.

Both seemed to experience a tiny but unexplained constant acceleration toward the sun. In other words, they were moving just a little bit slower than they should be, and by the same amount.


I should never have trusted fox news