On Dec 25, 9:26 am, Sadie Hawkins Day wrote:
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.

Well of course it has been explained, my
inbox has a stack of papers a foot high
and contains 80 explanations.
I'm extragrating a bit (actually it's 79
explanations and it's 2 foot high).
The problem is *insufficient data* to make
a hard definitive choice.
Ken S. Tucker