A Prosaic Explanation for the Anomalous Accelerations Seen in Distant Spacecraft

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1998-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9810015v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 1890

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

REVTEX v3.1, 3 pages with no figures submitted to Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1890

Anderson, et al. (gr-qc/9808081) have recently reported the discovery of an apparent anomalous, weak, long-range acceleration in the Pioneer 10/11 and Ulysses spacecraft. I believe that this result can be explained by non-isotropic radiative cooling of the spacecraft electronics through passive radiators on the spacecraft surface. These radiators are preferentially placed on the anti-solar side of the spacecraft to avoid heating by solar radiation. The power transmitted through these radiator panels can explain the observed acceleration within the observational errors.

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