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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Voyager and Pioneer _ Fluffy Mystery at Edge of Solar System Solved

Posted by: briv1016 Dec 24 2009, 02:37 AM

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091223-fluff-solar-system-nasa-voyager.html

Posted by: Astro0 Dec 24 2009, 03:38 AM

I just love it when scientists get all excited and come up with names for great stellar features...."The Fluff"....brilliant!

Posted by: stevesliva Dec 24 2009, 05:25 AM

Didn't they inadvertantely fry one of the two magnetometers a year or two back? Did they revive it? Never was clear on whether a recovery was made.

Still crazy amazing that we have working magnetometers that far out.

Posted by: Paolo Dec 27 2009, 09:14 AM

The abstract of the Nature paper is available http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7276/abs/nature08567.html
I don't have access to Nature, but I would be very interested in reading it...