Conventional Forces can Explain the Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer 10

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27 July 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

Anderson, et al., find the measured trajectories of Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft deviate from the trajectories computed from known forces acting on them. This unmodelled acceleration can be accounted for by non-isotropic radiation of spacecraft heat. Various forms of non-isotropic radiation were proposed by Katz, Murphy, and Scheffer, but Anderson, et al., felt that none of these could explain the observed effect. This paper recounts the combined total of all of these effects, over the duration of the experiment, based on spacecraft construction. Good agreement with the measured data indicates that the proposed effects can account all the unmodelled acceleration, without the need for new physics.

Keywords

UNMODELLED ACCELERATION
ANOMALOUS ACCELERATION
CONVENTIONAL FORCES
ISOTROPIC RADIATION
TRAJECTORIES
SPACECRAFT
ANDERSON
PIONEER

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Published version: Physical Review D, 67 (8), 084021.

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