Voyager 2 reaches solar system boundary


	Voyager 2 reaches solar system boundary

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1-9-2008 12:35 AM

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"Squashed boundaries"? Comforting how everything fits together.

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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://www.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/99d28423-e8d0-4440-9c57-bb1ae8a26955/26FCC777-F6DD-47EC-9CC6-5CBFF8679E40/" 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://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13029-voyager-2-probe-reaches-solar-system-boundary.html?feedId=online-news_rss20" href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13029-voyager-2-probe-reaches-solar-system-boundary.html?feedId=online-news_rss20" style="font-size: 11px;">space.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13029-voyager-2-probe-reaches-solar-system-boundary.html?feedId=online-news_rss20">Now, scientists know that the termination shock is 84 AU from the Sun in the direction Voyager 2 has traveled – 10 AU closer than in Voyager 1's direction. This confirms earlier measurements that suggested the solar system's <A href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19025534.100-the-kink-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system.html" linkindex="32">boundaries are squashed</A> in one direction because of the influence of the interstellar magnetic field. Depending on how squashed the heliopause is, Voyager 2 could leave the solar system first.</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://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13029-voyager-2-probe-reaches-solar-system-boundary.html?feedId=online-news_rss20"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/space.newscientist.com/img/BA1B7A3F-AAD6-4F4F-9F7E-8EA5566C6FCC" alt="The termination shock lies at a boundary where the solar wind – made of charged particles from the Sun – suddenly falters as it feels pressure from gas in the interstellar medium (Illustration: NASA/Feimer)" /></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://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13029-voyager-2-probe-reaches-solar-system-boundary.html?feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>In 2004, the faster of the two spacecraft, Voyager 1, became the first human-made object to <A href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg18625015.000-voyager-1-reaches-the-edge-of-the-solar-system.html" linkindex="30" set="yes">reach a boundary</A> called the termination shock. There, the solar wind – made of charged particles from the Sun – suddenly falters as it feels pressure from gas in the interstellar medium lying outside the solar system.</P></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/26FCC777-F6DD-47EC-9CC6-5CBFF8679E40/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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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