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What was the pioneer anomaly?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is This Spacecraft Going in the Right Direction?

We threw this space craft into space and it didn't go where we thought it would, right? That's the anomaly. It was hundreds of kilometers off course. There's some small acceleration of this thing towards the sun that didn't have an exhanation from any known physics. And i guess we triangulate, like if wea talkd it one day and then we talked it the next month, and we cansiler as the earth move ian. Is that how we can tell where it is? Yes,. Also, because we can tell where the signal is coming from rigt, we can locate it in the sky. And so we can where it is, how far

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