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Pioneer Spacecraft Warmth Takes Heat off Relativity

Jul 23, 20121 min
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The tiny slowing of the two Pioneer spacecraft, known as the Pioneer anomaly and considered by some to challenge general relativity, is probably due to the heat produced by electronics and radioactive decay. John Matson reports
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