-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Richer Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Mystery force pulls old space probe toward sun
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020211-67166412.htm WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Mystery force pulls old space probe toward sun By Robert Matthews LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH LONDON - A space probe launched 30 years ago has come under the influence of a force that has baffled scientists and could rewrite the laws of physics. Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up pictures of Jupiter before leaving our solar system in 1983, is being pulled back to the sun by an unknown force. The effect shows no sign of weakening as the spacecraft travels deeper into space, and scientists are considering the potential that the probe has revealed a new force of nature. Philip Laing, a member of the research team tracking the craft, said: "We have examined every mechanism and theory we can think of, and so far nothing works. "If the effect is real, it will have a big impact on cosmology and spacecraft navigation," said Mr. Laing, of the Aerospace Corp. of California. Pioneer 10 was launched by NASA on March 2, 1972, and with Pioneer 11, its twin, revolutionized astronomy with detailed images of Jupiter and Saturn. In June 1983, Pioneer 10 passed Pluto, the most distant planet in our solar system. Both probes are traveling at 27,000 mph toward stars that they will encounter several million years from now. Scientists are continuing to monitor signals from Pioneer 10, which is more than 7 billion miles from Earth. Research to be published shortly in a leading physics journal, however, will show that the speed of the two probes is being changed by about 6 mph per century - a barely perceptible effect about 10 billion times weaker than gravity. Scientists initially suspected that gas escaping from tiny rocket motors aboard the probes or heat leaking from their nuclear power plants might be responsible. Both now have been ruled out. The team says no current theories explain why the force stays constant: All the most plausible forces, from gravity to the effect of solar radiation, decrease rapidly with distance. The bizarre behavior also has eliminated theories that the two probes are affected by the gravitational pull of unknown planets beyond the solar system. Assertions by some scientists that the force is the result of a quirk in the Pioneer probes also have been discounted by the discovery that the effect seems to be affecting Galileo and Ulysses, two other space probes still in the solar system. Data from these two probes suggest the force is of the same strength as that found for the Pioneers. Duncan Steel, a space scientist at Salford University in Manchester, England, says even such a weak force could have huge effects on a cosmic scale. "It might alter the number of comets that come toward us over millions of years, which would have consequences for life on Earth. It also raises the question of whether we know enough about the law of gravity." Until 1988, Pioneer 10 was the most remote object made by man - a distinction now held by Voyager 1. Should Pioneer 10 make contact with alien life, it carries a gold-plated aluminium plaque on which the figures of a man and woman are shown to scale, along with a map showing its origin that NASA calls "the cosmic equivalent of a message in a bottle." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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