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What was the pioneer anomaly?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There Dark Matter All Around Us?

There's dark matter all around the earth. We can't see it or detect it because we think it only has a gravitational interaction. And remember, gravitys super dupor weak. Usually we'r only sensitive to dark matter if there are huge amounts of it. So people got excited when they thought maybe pioneer ten and 11 are like a local perriter telling us how much dark matter there is here. But wouldn'tte, if there was some anomaly in dark matter, wouldn't it affect all the other planets too? Yes, exactly it would. It could potentially affect the gravity things we send out into space.

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