Case Closed on the Pioneer Anomaly

[Fraser]

Caption: An artist’s view of a Pioneer spacecraft heading into interstellar space. Both Pioneer 10 and 11 are on trajectories that will eventually take them out of our solar system. Image credit: NASA The case of the Pioneer Anomaly has intrigued and perplexed scientists, engineers and the space-savvy public since 1980, when analysis of tracking [...]

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[Strange]

The link to the story seems to be broken; this should work though: http://www.universetoday.com/96336/

[R.A.F.]

Here is the LA Times "take" on it.

Has anyone told Jerry about this? I don't want to tell him...it'll break his heart.

[KaiYeves]

Phew, that was getting annoying.

[Amber Robot]

This has been known for over a decade. It just took the JPL guys a long time to admit to it.

This was a paper written by an old colleague of mine back in 1999: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9810015

[Extravoice]

I kind of wished it was some new phenomenon.
But then, I was hoping for FTL neutrinos and a missing Higgs.

Not that I would have bet money on any of them, though.

[Jeff Root]

The link in the article that is supposed to go to Turyshev's
new paper actually goes to a much older paper (2003).

I haven't been able to figure out yet how to sign up to
post on Universe Today, so maybe one of you could tell
Nancy.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis