"I heard something about the voyager space craft suddenly slowing down when the past a certain region past the solar sytem."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,658970,00.html

This article deals with the unexpected slowing down of Pioneer and Voyager. However, the suddenly used in the above post is misleading. The slow down is not nearly as exciting as alikar wants you to believe in his, yet again, unreferenced claim.

From the article
"And that tracking has thrown up surprises. Pioneer 10 is slowing down faster than expected simply based on the gravitational attraction of the sun and planets. The effect is tiny - only about one part in 10bn of that due to the Earth's gravity acting on you right now - but it is definitely there."

The reason for the slowing down is still unknown.

• And the answer is - yanniru - July 23, 2002 - 16:43 UTC
  • I am wrong again, or am I - yanniru - July 23, 2002 - 18:04 UTC
    • So much for Aaron's "theory" - richard - July 23, 2002 - 18:46 UTC
• Dark matter???? - doctordick - July 24, 2002 - 15:57 UTC
  • The Electric Universe - yanniru - July 24, 2002 - 16:51 UTC
    • Go Away!! - doctordick - July 24, 2002 - 17:21 UTC
      • Read the latest SCIAM - yanniru - July 24, 2002 - 21:16 UTC
        • Dark matter exists!!?? - doctordick - July 25, 2002 - 00:25 UTC
          • Yes - yanniru - July 25, 2002 - 13:45 UTC