美宇航局發現全新的大自然力量

Pioneer 10 (Original)
先驅者 10號（原）
元2010年01月31日

Null Hypothesis: Pioneers 10 & 11
零假設：先驅者10＆11
西元2008年09月29日

美宇航局發現全新的大自然力量
NASA discovers brand new force of nature
13:00 AEST Mon Sep 20 201011 hours 38 minutes ago
By ninemsn staff

NASA scientists say they may have discovered a new force of nature, after research showed two of their deep space probes were being inexplicably pulled off course.
美國宇航局的科學家說，他們可能已經發現一種新的大自然力量，在研究顯示他們的兩部深空探測器被莫名其妙地拉出航道後。
Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, which have been in space for over 40 years, are being steadily pulled towards the sun by an unknown power, according to London’s Telegraph newspaper
先驅者 10號和先驅者 11號，已在太空超過 40年，現正被一種不知的力量穩步拉向太陽，根據倫敦電訊報
The scientists said it could not be gravity or solar radiation, as they decreased over distance.
科學家們說，它不可能是重力或太陽輻射，因為它們隨著距離逐步減少。
They have also discounted gas leaks and nuclear heat leaks from the satellites.
他們還貼現來自衛星的氣體洩漏和核熱量洩漏。
Although the force is relatively weak — around 10 billion times weaker than gravity — the satellites are travelling at around 43,000km/h on a journey expected to last several million years.
雖然力量是相對地薄弱 - 約 10億倍弱於重力 - 衛星約以 43,000公里/小時行駛旅程，預計將持續數百萬年。

Two other satellites in the solar system, Galileo and Ulysses, are also being affected by a similar force.
另外兩個在太陽能系的衛星，伽利略和尤利西斯，亦正被一個類似的力量影響。

The Pioneer satellites have photographed planets Jupiter and Saturn, and Pioneer 10 is so far into space it passed Pluto in 1983.

The research will be published in a leading physics journal, The Physical Review.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/7964324/nasa-discovers-brand-new-force-of-nature

Mystery force baffles NASA
神秘力量困惑美國宇航局
西元2008年02月29日