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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"Most of the radiation pressure on objects in space is caused by reflection of solar radiation."

Sure, insofar as reflecting infrared light (heat) is pressure...but the Pioneer anomaly is pushing P1 and P2 toward the sun, not away from it.

26 posted on 04/16/2008 7:12:25 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Stimmt. AndrewC seemed to be poo-poo radiation pressure. The anomaly could simply be the difference between the model of radiation pressure and true radiation pressure. If you model, say, 0.001 kg-meter/sec/sec, plus or minus (say) 0.0001 kg-m/s/s, and the actual radiation pressure is 0.0005, you have an anomaly of 0.0005 kg-m/s/s “towards” the sun, which cannot be “explained” by your model.


27 posted on 04/17/2008 3:54:35 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The women got the vote and the Nation got Harding.)
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