Thursday, May 05, 2005

Lost asteroid clue to Pioneer puzzle

"This 370-kilometre-wide space rock has spent the past 54 years in the anomaly zone, so it should have experienced the largest perturbation. And tantalisingly, it is not where predictions say it should be."

The mystery deepens . . .
Posted by Mac at 4:11 PM

4 comments:

eyemage said...

so whats the best theory so far?
wierd anomoulous gravitational field thats not detectable?

blank slate dark energy hypothesis?

or edge of the virtual reality simulation we are in?

and does any of it have to do with the feds wanting to stop funding for all the outgoing probes?

4:49 PM
Mac said...

Scientists have been quite mum on possible theories. A few interesting ideas, but nothing substantial (which is to their credit since this is a genuine enigma).

I would personally explore the possibility that dark energy is deflecting objects in the outer solar system.

6:18 PM
razorsmile said...

hollowed-out asteroid?

12:08 PM
Carol said...

After a while you get used to being perturbed when you're in the anomaly zone.
Some of us even think it's a normal state of affairs by now.

7:59 PM