Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2007-09-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
7 pages, 1 figure, invited talk at the Fourth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, 8-11 Aug. 2007, held at Indiana University
Scientific paper
The 1972 and 1973 launched Pioneer 10 and 11 were the first missions to explore the outer solar system. They achieved stunning breakthroughs in deep-space exploration. But around 1980 an unmodeled force of \sim 8 \times 10^{-8} cm/s^2, directed approximately towards the Sun, appeared in the tracking data. It later was unambiguously verified as not being an artifact. The origin remains unknown (although radiant heat remains a likely cause). Increasing effort has gone into understanding this anomaly. We review the situation and describe programs to resolve the issue.
Anderson John D.
Nieto Michael Martin
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