ST. LOUIS — For years,
astronomers have been puzzled about why the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft aren’t
traveling quite as fast as they ought to be. Launched in the early 1970s, the
craft have each journeyed several billion kilometers in opposite directions from
Earth and are now at the edge of the solar system.
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