PI's Perspective: What if Voyager had explored Pluto? Options

[Planet X]

Check out this latest PI's perspective. It is a very interesting read. I will be pointing out a similar and even more interesting concept later on. Stay tuned!

J P

[jgoldader]

Nice article. I've wondered in the past if the Voyagers had passed close enough to any TNOs that observations might've been made, but of course they wouldn't have been discovered so it's a moot point. I suppose that since no odd Doppler shifts have ever been seen, about all we can say is that neither Voyager ever came close enough to any TNO to feel any measurable gravitational force. But one can imagine one of the Voyagers, cameras long ago switched off, passing silently a few hundred thousand km from a small TNO, and we might never have noticed.
Jeff

[Alan Stern]

Nice article. I've wondered in the past if the Voyagers had passed close enough to any TNOs that observations might've been made, but of course they wouldn't have been discovered so it's a moot point. I suppose that since no odd Doppler shifts have ever been seen, about all we can say is that neither Voyager ever came close enough to any TNO to feel any measurable gravitational force. But one can imagine one of the Voyagers, cameras long ago switched off, passing silently a few hundred thousand km from a small TNO, and we might never have noticed.
Jeff

We looked at that. Nothing closer than about 0.5 AU, among all known TNOs.