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	Amazing...Voyager 1 Most distant sat in space

smellydiaper

8-2-2009 12:26 PM

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voyager, satelite, space, distance

smellydiaper says:

really mind boggling to me almost out of solar system and traveling to unknown space

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4e227e3c-be3b-4f46-8ee7-52bf3d923cd1/0DBE6F2D-0690-4E72-A287-B1EC98C8C3A2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/D25771DF-8951-4966-9576-E4C341159691" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><I>Voyager 1</I> is currently the farthest human-made object from <A title="Earth" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth">Earth</A>, traveling away from both the Earth and the <A title="Sun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun">Sun</A> at a speed that corresponds to a greater <A title="Specific energy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_energy">specific energy</A> than any other probe.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A href="#cite_note-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><I>Voyager 1</I> is currently the farthest human-made object from <A title="Earth" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth">Earth</A>, traveling away from both the Earth and the <A title="Sun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun">Sun</A> at a speed that corresponds to a greater <A title="Specific energy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_energy">specific energy</A> than any other probe.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572">As of February 1, 2009, <I>Voyager 1</I> is about 108.60 <A title="Astronomical unit" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit">AU</A> (16.247 <A title="1000000000 (number)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000000000_(number)">billion</A> km, or 10.095 billion miles) from the Sun</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/CFCBE087-437B-4277-9718-DBF8BA3767CE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/7C0EFB6D-3270-4051-895B-837A81B794EF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><DIV class="thumbcaption">
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Current location and trajectories of Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft, as of April 4, 2007</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><P><I>Voyager 1</I> is not heading towards any particular star, but in about <A title="11th millennium and beyond" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_millennium_and_beyond">40,000 years</A> it will be within 1.6 light years of the star <A title="AC+79 3888" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC%2B79_3888">AC+79 3888</A> in the <A title="Camelopardalis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelopardalis">Camelopardalis</A> constellation because AC+79 3888 is moving to the solar system at 119 kilometers per second.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"><A href="#cite_note-11"><SPAN>[</SPAN>12<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/76F05D5B-4C37-4658-A144-B137B26DF665" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><DIV class="thumbcaption">
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<I>Voyager 1</I> is in the <A class="mw-redirect" title="Heliosheath" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosheath">heliosheath</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><TH>Launch date</TH></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voyager_1&oldid=304356572"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class=""><SPAN title="1977-09-05" class="mw-formatted-date"><SPAN title="09-05" class="mw-formatted-date"><A title="September 5" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_5">September 5</A></SPAN>, <A title="1977" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977">1977</A></SPAN> <SMALL>(<SPAN>&0000000000000031.000000</SPAN>31 years, <SPAN>&0000000000000331.000000</SPAN>331 days days ago)</SMALL></TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0DBE6F2D-0690-4E72-A287-B1EC98C8C3A2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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