Astronomy / Space Voyager has left the Solar System

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Voyager 1 has not left the solar system: Nasa
The Voyager 1 spacecraft has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space, Nasa scientists have clarified, amid reports that the spacecraft has exited our solar system.

"The Voyager team is aware of reports that Nasa's Voyager 1 has left the solar system," said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
"It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space," Stone said in a statement.

"In December 2012, the Voyager science team reported that Voyager 1 is within a new region called 'the magnetic highway' where energetic particles changed dramatically.

"A change in the direction of the magnetic field is the last critical indicator of reaching interstellar space and that change of direction has not yet been observed," Stone said.
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The data is very mixed about this event, but I still admire the fact that this piece of iron flew so far, and in addition, sends useful information to us on Planet Earth!
 

Ian Phillips

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Ian Phillips
gunbladelad said:
Just spotted a story saying that it is now accepted that Voyager 1 has completely left our solar system, and it's expected that Voyager 2 will be departing our turf soon as well.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astr...aft_has_apparently_left_the_solar_system.html

With human technology now out in the interstellar void does that qualify us as being a member of an interstellar community, or just galactic litterbugs...?
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Not until it reaches another star system...could be some time yet:smilie:
 

synchromesh

synchromesh
Ironicly and probably in about a 1000 years time we will probably have the capabilities to fly out and get it back in about an hour or so :)

Or some trader will grab it and sell it for scrap...Makes you think :S
 

Mobius

Mobius
intresting looking at the bigger picture.
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Mobius

Mobius
put a wallpaper together as a cross over

I call it "The Return of an old Friend"

if you would like it as a wallpaper just click the image to take you to the wallpaper thread.

 

Selezen

Selezen
The comment on that cartoon points out that NASA have used about thirteen criteria for what constitutes the "edge of the solar system".

Randall Munroe said:
So far Voyager 1 has 'left the Solar System' by passing through the termination shock three times, the heliopause twice, and once each through the heliosheath, heliosphere, heliodrome, auroral discontinuity, Heaviside layer, trans-Neptunian panic zone, magnetogap, US Census Bureau Solar System statistical boundary, Kuiper gauntlet, Oort void, and crystal sphere holding the fixed stars.
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gunbladelad

gunbladelad
Put Voyager in,
put Voyager out,
in, out, in, out,
what's it all about!
The Nasa monkeys have their brains fried around
wondering if Voyager's out.
 

Hudson

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Maybe the Voyager craft (1 & 2), and the New Horizons craft could be random, extremely rare destinations for mis-jumps out of, or to, Sol. ??

Those pure gold records might be worth a bit by then! :)

Perhaps as a Commander you get a few choices :-
a) Destroy it and become infamous forever.
b) Salvage the gold records and sell them.
c) Report its position to the authorities for a reward.
d) Return it to an Earth Museum.
e) Admire it and leave it alone.


Cheers,
Hudson
 

gunbladelad

gunbladelad
Doesn't a character in one of the Elite / Frontier Fan fic come across one of the Voyager probes...?

I'll need to see if I can track down a copy from my old hard drives or a working link
 

DobrijZmej

DobrijZmej
NASA show online data from VOYAGERS:

VOYAGER 1
DISTANCE FROM EARTH 18,462,204,632 KM (123.41221533 AU)
DISTANCE FROM THE SUN 18,555,477,844 KM (124.03570825 AU)
ROUNDTRIP LIGHT TIME FROM THE SUN 34:12:46 (hh:mm:ss)

VOYAGER 2
DISTANCE FROM EARTH 15,152,497,221 KM (101.28818780 AU)
DISTANCE FROM THE SUN 15,183,707,270 KM (101.49681409 AU)
ROUNDTRIP LIGHT TIME FROM THE SUN 28:04:46 (hh:mm:ss)

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