Got the following article originally from www.codeproject.com. It was original titled "V'Ger must evolve!" Amusing.
See: http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn13676&print=true or http://tinyurl.com/5uwleq Pioneer spacecraft mystery may be laid to rest 14:30 15 April 2008 NewScientist.com news service Valerie Jamieson, St Louis Excerpt: > Uneven heat > The wealth of data has allowed them to build detailed > computer models of Pioneer 11, including a thermal > model which shows how heat is distributed over the > spacecraft. This has revealed that Pioneer 11 gives > off heat in certain directions more than others. The > uneven heat emission is enough to nudge the spacecraft > off course, accounting for 28% to 36% of the anomaly > detected when Pioneer 11 was 3750 million kilometres, > or 25 times the Earth-sun distance, away from us. [But what about the remaining 64% to 72%? - svj] Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
