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Wow, that's crazy... It sure seems so.
by thrusong 7y ago
Wow, that's crazy... It sure seems so.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoNot really, the deviation is not that large for the scales we're talking about and there are still plenty of potential explanations. Hell, for the longest time we couldn't explain why our own Pioneer spacecraft deviated from expected trajectories and we knew precisely what they were made of.
- DiogenesKynikos 7y ago... with the most likely explanation being outgassing. Seligman et al. (2019): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0bb5 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0bb5
- ASalazarMX 7y agoIf that's so, all comets could be probes.