Voyager-1 at 100 AU!, A space milestone this month |
Voyager-1 at 100 AU!, A space milestone this month |
Aug 2 2006, 12:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Nobody highlighted this and I didn't find any comment from Nasa/Voyager sites.
On August,11 the intrepid Voyager-1 probe will reach 14.960 billion Km from the Sun, one hundred times the average Earth-Sun distance! This event will be followed, after 16 days, by the 100AU from Earth reach. From astrophysical standpoint, first event is the most important but, I think, most people will be emotionally hit from the second one. So I would like to start a poll on this. -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Aug 6 2006, 08:43 AM
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The AIAA journal "Astronautics and Aeronautics" had a major article on TOPS in an issue in the early 70's, before the mission was canceled and re-created as Mariner Jupiter/Saturn, then Voyager. I was P****D when they renamed the vehicles from Mariner 11 and 12 to Voyager 1 and 2. I'm sure it was a NASA HQ public information office stupidity, figuring a #1 would be more interesting than a #11.
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Aug 7 2006, 01:53 PM
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The AIAA journal "Astronautics and Aeronautics" had a major article on TOPS in an issue in the early 70's, before the mission was canceled and re-created as Mariner Jupiter/Saturn, then Voyager. I was P****D when they renamed the vehicles from Mariner 11 and 12 to Voyager 1 and 2. I'm sure it was a NASA HQ public information office stupidity, figuring a #1 would be more interesting than a #11. But then we wouldn't have had Star Trek: Voyager, and what would V'Ger have done?! M'rner? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Aug 7 2006, 01:57 PM
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Aug 8 2006, 01:09 AM
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No, the Klingons blew P'neer to bits in one of the movies.
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Aug 8 2006, 01:27 AM
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No, the Klingons blew P'neer to bits in one of the movies. Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier, made in 1989. The worst of the lot, made worse by having the Klingons use humanity's first ambassador into the galaxy as target practice. They did recreate Pioneer 10 accurately, except that the famous Plaque was bolted on facing in towards the probe to protect its engravings from the ravages of deep space. But obviously it was not enough to protect it from Klingon phasers. I also don't think Pioneer 10 would look quite as worn as the film version did in just 300 or so years, but I haven't had the chance to check the probe in person. http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Pioneer_10 I suppose this also means that since Pioneer 10 couldn't have gotten too far from Earth on a relative scale in just three centuries, the Klingon warship was pretty darn close to the Sol system. Voyager 6 (V'Ger - not M'Rner) at least had the excuse of falling into a black hole to get so far away so fast. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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