Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
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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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Some quite dramatic swings in the >0,5 MeV data, together with an ever increasing trend toward the 2,3 particle per second in the >70 MeV particle data hits that something might be in the works for Voyager 2 also now.
Not saying that we're there yet, there were large swings on the graph before V1 eventually did enter interstellar space, and this does not look exactly the same either. So this is posted only a small heads up that something is happening after a quite long and unevenful timespan. ![]() |
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On the one hand, the V1 events were those "bottoming out" events right before breakthrough, but this is going up. On the other hand, I don't recall seeing such an abrupt jump in recent times. Gripping hand, maybe there's a high density pileup of particles caused by some shock front. I check every single day, can hardly wait... Hope she makes it through while she and I are both still functioning.
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Yes you're correct Jeff that it was a series of dips in the graph before V1 went into the interstellar realm. So my description was a tad too conservative.
![]() If that is the case, and if V2 actually are at the boundary, I think we got a fair chance that both you, me and V2 will be fully functional to follow this. =) Edit for adding the graph for the past year, this looks absolutely wild! There's a pattern to this though, after each time the particle count have peaked, it falls back to a value that is about the same as the previous top value - we can see 2 times in this graph, though there's one more further back in time also. ![]() |
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