archive: SETI Sagan: Voyager mission status 2/1/99
SETI Sagan: Voyager mission status 2/1/99
Larry Klaes ( lklaes@bbn.com )
Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:53:48 -0500
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>From: Paul Mundy <paulm@bensherman.co.uk>
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>Subject: Sagan: Voyager mission status 2/1/99
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Larry Klaes [SMTP:lklaes@bbn.com]
>> Sent: 03 February 1999 16:53
>> To: seti@sni.net; carlsagan@craigerware.avalon.net
>> Subject: Sagan: Voyager mission status 2/1/99
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>> >
>> > Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object in space,
>> >continues to operate normally. The spacecraft, which is currently
>> >10.9 billion kilometers (6.8 billion miles) from Earth, is
>> >departing Earth's neighborhood at 35 degrees north of the
>> >ecliptic plane at a speed of about 17.3 kilometers per second
>> >(38,752 miles per hour). Round-trip light time from Earth to
>> >Voyager 1 is about 20 hours.
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> Fascinating ... thanks for passing this on Larry.
>
> A colleague and I have just worked out that, if Voyager 1 had
>been heading towards Proxima Centauri (which we know it isn't), it would
>have taken aprox 67,000 years for the probe to reach this star 4 light
>years from Sol. Are our calculations correct?
>
> Has anybody ever worked out which star Voyager 1 will encounter
>first, and how long it will take for this to occur?
>
> Cheers
> Paul Mundy
>
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