Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
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Jun 3 2005, 10:47 PM
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http://planetary.org/news/2005/voyager-upd...ation_0524.html
Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object in space, has crossed the termination shock, the last major threshold in the solar system, team members announced today at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
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Apr 17 2008, 09:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1670 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
I saw a nice talk that Ed Stone gave on this topic three days ago. It will be interesting to follow along for a decade or so to see what the magnetic field looks like when Voyager gets completely into the interstellar medium.
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Jul 2 2008, 08:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
(edit: of course this is old news to UMSF thread readers!)
The solar system is 'dented' as reported in this CNN Article. I'm curious about how they refer to 'north' and 'south', and whether the motion of the Sun through the Milky Way impacts the escape velocities of the Voyagers. (2nd edit: I thought I had asked the velocity question somewhere before, and found that dmuller provided insight in this post over in the New Horizons thread. thank you dmuller!) |
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