Voyager 1 has left the Solar System after all!

[Tibbz2]

 

"Carrying Earthly greetings on a gold plated phonograph record and still-operational scientific instruments -- including the Low Energy Charged Particle detector designed, built and overseen, in part, by UMD's Space Physics Group -- NASA's Voyager 1 has traveled farther from Earth than any other human-made object. And now, these researchers say, it has begun the first exploration of our galaxy beyond the Sun's influence."

 

"Swisdak and his colleagues suggest that Voyager 1 actually crossed the heliopause on July 27, 2012."

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130815133726.htm

 

So there's another explanation for the strange readings last Summer!

Edited August 19, 2013 by Tibbz2

[Daz Type-R]

Hmmmmm, I won't fully believe it until ALL scientists agree, they even state this further down the article......

"Their model indicates Voyager 1 actually entered interstellar space a little more than a year ago, a finding directly counter to recent papers by NASA and other scientists suggesting the spacecraft was still in a fuzzily-defined transition zone between the Sun's sphere of influence and the rest of the galaxy.

But why the controversy?"

Until there is NO controversy, I wait!!!!!

[xanthic]

It seems to me as though they feel the probe should have crossed a definite line. Surely on that sort of scale, you would see some sort of slow transition?

[Tibbz2]

It seems to me as though they feel the probe should have crossed a definite line. Surely on that sort of scale, you would see some sort of slow transition?

 

That's what I though, but then again I'm not a particle physicist or anything so there are probably reasons!

[Big Al]

Probably waiting for the famous "bump" like the Apollo astronauts supposedly had between the Earth and the Moon...

[Daz Type-R]

Now I will accept it has left the solar system....

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24026153

 

"When the Voyager team put the new data together with information from the other instruments on board, they calculated the moment of escape to have occurred on or about 25 August, 2012."

[dawson]

I can't remember what i was watching but someone played audio that voyager had apparently recorded from interstellar space and there were a few bumps and things; seemed a bit odd. Maybe someone was trying to get to the emergency chocolate supply or the gold disc.

[tuckstar]

V'GER!!!!!!

[Brantuk]

It's gotta get out there just so that wierd colony of kids on a distant planet can worship it lol

[tuckstar]

It's gotta get out there just so that wierd colony of kids on a distant planet can worship it lol

On a world called krikkit where no one looks up!!

Edited September 13, 2013 by tuckstar