On Apr 23, 10:05 am, Oh No wrote:
I heard one anecdote (in a television documentary quite some time ago)
of an exoplanet hunter who, in the early or mid 1990's (when the best
precision was in the 3 - 10 m/s range) thought he had discovered one.
When it came time to present his findings at a conference, he mounted
the podium only to painfully relate to his eager audience that, having
realized that the period of his purported planet was 1 year, what he had
"discovered" was merely an annual residual in his data. His candor,
nevertheless, earned him a brisk applause. The moral of the story, as
presented, was about the scientific virtue of frank disclosure in the
face of error.

About the Pioneer Anomaly.
Check out fig.1 in this, (the bottom fig)...
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9903024

I have no conclusions, but an annular effect
"may" be apparent in the data. (A work in
progress).
Regards
Ken S. Tucker