# Pioneer 10 and 11 orbit determination analysis shows no discrepancy with Newton-Einstein laws of gravity

@article{Modenini2014Pioneer1A,
title={Pioneer 10 and 11 orbit determination analysis shows no discrepancy with Newton-Einstein laws of gravity},
author={Dario Modenini and Paolo Tortora},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={2014},
volume={90},
pages={022004}
}
• Published 20 November 2013
• Physics
• Physical Review D
The present work describes the investigation of the navigation anomaly of Pioneer 10 and 11 probes which became known as the Pioneer Anomaly. It appeared as a linear drift in the Doppler data received by the spacecraft, which has been ascribed to an approximately constant sunward acceleration of about $8.5 \times 10^{-13} km/s^2$. Since then, the existence of the anomaly has been confirmed independently by several groups and a large effort was devoted to find its origin. The present study…
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