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Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery
Science@NASA ^
| 12.23.2009
| Dr. Tony Phillips
Posted on 12/23/2009 8:42:00 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou
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To: DesertSapper
Nah, physicists don’t matter. Now if climate scientists had said that it wasn’t there . . .
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posted on
12/23/2009 10:53:24 PM PST
by
sig226
(Bring back Jimmy Carter!)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
Isn’t this where Lando Calrissian lives?
To: dragnet2
You can say the Solar System ends at the Heliopause.Initial data from Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), launched in October 2008, revealed a previously unpredicted "very narrow ribbon that is two to three times brighter than anything else in the sky." Initial interpretations suggest that "the interstellar environment has far more influence on structuring the heliosphere than anyone previously believed. You can also say that the Solar System ends at the Oort Cloud.The Oort Cloud is a hypothesized spherical cloud of comets which may lie roughly 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sun.This places the cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun.
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posted on
12/24/2009 12:22:09 AM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
( "This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter.)
To: americanophile
No.
....A long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far, away....
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posted on
12/24/2009 12:25:12 AM PST
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: grey_whiskers; sonofstrangelove; Salamander; Markos33; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono
There is a secret stone, hidden in a deep well,
worthless and rejected, concealed in dung or filth.
It is a thing which is found everywhere,
which is a stone and no stone,
contemptible and precious,
hidden, concealed, and yet known to everyone.
(Certain "heavenly bodies" not withstanding.)
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posted on
12/24/2009 12:41:06 AM PST
by
shibumi
(" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
To: grey_whiskers
Too bad, she passed away back in 1998...
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posted on
12/24/2009 11:17:50 AM PST
by
stevie_d_64
(I'm jus sayin')
To: stevie_d_64
Yikes! I didn't know that.
Apologies for lack of decorum.
Cheers!
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posted on
12/24/2009 1:22:30 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
Ehhhh, don’t worry, You didn’t know, no apologies necessary...
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posted on
12/24/2009 7:31:05 PM PST
by
stevie_d_64
(I'm jus sayin')
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