Proposed Explanations
A number of proposed explanations for acceleration towards the sun have been pursued. These are categorized under the following: an unaccounted for real deceleration, observational errors, and explanations that would essentially be New Physics. During March 2011, experts proposed new calculations which seem to confirm that heat is the cause of the spacecraft slowing down.
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