Re: Pioneer Anomoly

Dear Jonathan Silverlight:

"Jonathan Silverlight"
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> In message <BJpse.1238$eV4.710@fed1read01>, "N:dlzc D:aol T:com
> (dlzc)" <N@?.D.invalid> writes
>>Dear Tom Kirke:
>>
>>"Tom Kirke" <tomkirke@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> ArXiv has posted an interesting paper about the Pioneer
>>> Anomoly.
>>>
>>> Not surprisingly the main conclusion is that we should
>>> send another mission to the outer Solar System. If
>>> nothing else this would give us a second data point.
>>
>>There were 4 or 5 missions, each with slightly different
>>anomalies, starting at different points. Cassini was
>>designed to not have the identified defects on the earlier
>>spacecraft, and no anomaly has been noted in its flight
>>path.
>>
>
> I think you'll find that both Ulysses and Galileo show
> at least a hint of the same anomaly with the same
> magnitude. The Voyagers don't show it because they
> aren't spin stabilised so they aren't stable enough.
> And John Anderson thinks Cassini doesn't show the
> effect because of uncertainties in thermal emission,
> though I'm almost sure he's wrong.
> There are grounds for new measurements.

Two missions, "side by side". One rotation clockwise, the other
anti-clockwise. Both satellites to have dishes of equal size and
separation, that point *away* from the Sun, even if
non-functional. I concern myself with a hot body, that has a
distinct and separate "solar sail" (aka antenna) that will be at
a temperature between that of the body and that of the CMBR...
providing Sun-directed net thrust from the power source. Heat is
also momentum.

But I think it is a waste of money.

David A. Smith


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