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Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge - 7/2/2008 2:04:18 PM
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Marcus.
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By Jeremy Hsu
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posted: 02 July 2008
01:16 pm ET
Voyager 2's journey toward interstellar space has revealed surprising insights into the energy and magnetic forces at the solar system's outer edge, and confirmed the solar system's squashed shape.
Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to send data to Earth more than 30 years after they first launched. During the 1990s, Voyager 1 became the farthest manmade object in space.
Each spacecraft has now crossed the edge of the solar system, known as termination shock, where the outbound solar wind collides with inbound energetic particles from interstellar space. The termination shock surrounds the solar system and encloses a bubble called the heliosphere.
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RE: Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge - 7/2/2008 2:23:57 PM
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7.8 Billion miles from earth. Too bad they can't get those converted into frequent flyer miles!
You don't happen to know (or have a guess) when it may hit the next system?
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RE: Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge - 7/2/2008 2:32:43 PM
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You don't happen to know (or have a guess) when it may hit the next system?
Depends on the headwind.
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RE: Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge - 7/2/2008 2:50:27 PM
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7.8 Billion miles from earth. Too bad they can't get those converted into frequent flyer miles!
You don't happen to know (or have a guess) when it may hit the next system?
Not anytime in the next 100 generations or so, if it ever does, and if it does, we won't know about it.
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RE: Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge - 7/2/2008 9:35:07 PM
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It's scheduled to pass by Sirius in 300 000 years.
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RE: Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge - 7/3/2008 7:39:19 AM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: Jhud
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7.8 Billion miles from earth. Too bad they can't get those converted into frequent flyer miles!
You don't happen to know (or have a guess) when it may hit the next system?
Not anytime in the next 100 generations or so, if it ever does, and if it does, we won't know about it.
By then I'll be the fossil that a Marcus 300K years from now will be posting on the "mind net" (direct cerebral link web) that was found in CA. They'll call me "internet man" because he was found sitting at a lap top! 
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