On Sat, 31 Aug 13, "Richard D. Saam" wrote:
I won't say 'new physics' is required

Recently I posted an analysis of the Pioneer anomaly showing that its
scale is consistent with universal size, thusly:

At 20AU Pioneer was travelling 12500m/s. The anomalous sunward
acceleration was 9 x 10^-10 m/s^2. Therefore, per each second, the
distance travelled was 12500m, and the anomolous distance shortfall
was d=.5a = 4.5 x 10^-10m.

Thus the ratio of the shortfall to distance travelled is 3.6 x 10^-14.

Let's hypothesize that this anomaly is simply a function of distance.
Thus, 20AU / ratio = 3 x 10^9 km / 3.6 x 10^-14 = 8.33 x 10^22 km =
8.8 x 10^9 LY, which approximates the Einstein radius usually written
as 10^10 LY.

If this hypothesis is right, then the Pioneer anomaly would be
seen to be twice at 40AU as it was at 20AU.


Eric Flesch