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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Jun 27 2013, 09:44 PM
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Thanks for pointing out that update Mongo,
a little back-of-the-envelope math... V1 will have traveled 1% of the distance to the nearest star, on or about the year 2727 ( EDIT: not 2377 ... I sharpened my pencil) BTW, its not pointing at the nearest star, it is heading towards the vicinity of the Solar Apex (the direction of the Sun's motion relative to nearby stars, or currently someplace southwest of the star Vega). Voyager 1 will leave the solar system aiming toward the constellation Ophiuchus. From NASA: In the year 40,272 AD, Voyager 1 will come within 1.7 light years of an obscure star in the constellation Ursa Minor (the Little Bear or Little Dipper) called AC+79 3888 V1 is only 17.18 light-hours from the Sun at the moment. Voyager 2 is also escaping the solar system to the south toward the constellations of Sagitarrius and Pavo. In about 40,000 years, Voyager 2 will come within about 1.7 light years of a star called Ross 248, a small star in the constellation of Andromeda also see: http://www.heavens-above.com/SolarEscape.aspx -------------------- CLA CLL
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