Dan Minette wrote: ...
When scientists tracked one of the interplanetary probes, the found an anomaly in its orbit. After doing exhaustive work ruling out the conventional explanations that they could think of, and after discussing it with colleagues, they published the anomaly. For a year, papers were written testing and ruling out various explanations. Finally, someone came up with the actual cause, and the anomaly was forgotten.
Dan-- This was part of a good example of how to point out problems while retaining credibility. But if you're talking about the "Pioneer anomaly", please cite. Last I heard, it still had not been explained. Here are a couple recent items: http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/9/3 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/25/114239&tid=160&tid=14 ---David Drawn towards the Earth by similarity magic, Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
