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 15 2006, 08:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
The Guardian had an editorial on the Voyager 1 100 AU anniversary in
its August 8 edition here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1839454,00.html -------------------- "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 16 2006, 09:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Finally, JPL news reported it!
The date is 3/4 days after what we said based on SpaceSimulator and HeavensAbove... (thanks to Max site for the highlight). -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Aug 17 2006, 05:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
...and NASA too!
-------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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