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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Man Made

Voyager 1 has officially crossed the "termination shock", the region where the speed of the solar wind drops abruptly from supersonic to subsonic, and has entered the shell of dense solar wind called the heliosheath that separates our solar system from interstellar space.

Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral.

Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object from Earth.

2 Comments:

Blogger Toad734 said...

I dont know, I released one of those wind up birds in 5th grade and it kept going and just flew away with the wind. Who knows where it could be by now.

3:10 PM

 
Blogger The Ringleader said...

And what about all those helium balloons that get released into the sky every year? I've never seen a single one come down.

5:44 PM

 

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