Conventional forces can explain the anomalous acceleration of Pioneer 10

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Scheffer, Louis K ^a  

^a CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS   (United States)

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ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FORCE; HEAT; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYSICS; PREDICTION; RADIATION; RADIATION BEAM; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0038779523     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.084021     Document Type: Article

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