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Old December 25th 07 posted to sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics
Sadie Hawkins Day
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Default Pioneer Anomaly is GR Time Dilation?

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:04:42 -0500, John C. Polasek
wrote:

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:07:59 +0200, Roland PJ
wrote:

The Pioneer Spacecraft have shown an anomalous acceleration towards the
Sun of ~8 x 10^-16 m/s^2.


You better check. The Pioneer acceleration is 8e-10 not 8e-16m/ss.
Wouldn't this invalidate your arithmetic?

Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 were traveling at about 1.22 x 10^4 m/s and
1.16 x 10^4 m/s away from the Sun at the end of their lifetimes.

Now, the Pioneers will have experienced time dilation in the correct
direction (blue-shift for us on earth) as they escape the gravitational
well of the Sun, as follows:


I thought the Pioneer 10/11 anomaly had already been explained.
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