10-November-2004, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Wally
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Originally Posted by ToSeek
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Originally Posted by Wally
Aren't the pioneer spacecrafts accelerating away from the sun, not towards it??? :-?
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Ok, I know I'm gonna come across as pretty darn ignorant here, but why is this a mystery? Regardless of the crafts exceeding escape velocity for our solar system, they are still impacted by the Sun's gravity, right? I guess I'm left wondering "why wouldn't they be slowing down???" |
The slowdown is more than can be accounted for by expected effects such as the Sun's gravity.
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