The Pioneer Anomaly |
The Pioneer Anomaly |
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http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/pioneer_anomaly_faq.html
The planetary society may be checking it out... QUOTE The Planetary Society has committed to raise the funds to preserve the priceless Pioneer data from destruction.
After years of analysis, but without a final conclusion, NASA, astonishingly, gave up trying to solve the "Pioneer Anomaly" and provided no funds to analyze the data. The Pioneer data exists on a few hundred ancient 7- and 9-track magnetic tapes, which can only be read on "antique" outdated computers. The agency is going to scrap, literally demolish, the only computers able to access and process that data in the next few months! |
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If an objection to putting a Voyager into a slow spin is the likelihood that it would not be possible to stop the spin, do we care?
{well, of course we care, but you catch my drift} IIRC, some of the fields and particle experiments on Voyager work better when the craft is spinning, and the craft has spun for short periods for that very reason during planetary encounters. Maybe this isn't so unlikely? |
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