A mirror world explanation for the Pioneer spacecraft anomalies?

Abstract

We show that the anomalous acceleration of the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft can be explained if there is some mirror gas or mirror dust in our solar system.

arXiv commentLatex, 7 pages, accepted in Phys. Lett.B

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