Pioneer : Anomaly Still Anonymous

"Joe Jakarta" wrote in message
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George Dishman wrote:
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Their model is very slightly off, and needs no adjusting.

Only 8,000 miles off after 34 years at flying 27,000 mph is
Excellent!

I doubt that we can even measure 8,000 mi at that distance anyway.

It's 8,000 miles per year. Add it up since the early 1980's and you
have
a big problem with gravitational theory.



Bullpuppy.

It travels 236,520,000 in one year, and it is within 0.000338% of
expected.

The mass of the sun is not known to that precision, nor the mass of the
spacecraft.

The anomaly is a linear variation of speed from the
trajectory which is the best fit to the data. Any
adjustment to the mass (strictly the GM product) for
the Sun would have an effect that varied as the
inverse square of the distance instead of proportional
to distance which is what is observed.

EM waves vary according to an inverse-first-power law.

That's the amplitude, what is measured is the
frequency which is unaffected by distance.

George