http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
So we should celebrate 100 AU in a few (2?) years. Keep going!

BTW, round trip light time is now more than a day!

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Stupid question:
Are we still receiving data from them?

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Short answer: Yes!

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They saying anything interesting..... Aside from the amazing thing that they are in deep space etc?

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So how far will they go before they run out of power in 2020?

Jan 1st 2020:
Voyager 1- 147.937AU
Voyager 2- 122.685AU

And, just as a matter of interest...
Pioneer 10- 125.033AU
Pioneer 11- 102.171AU

By then both voyagers should have reached or passed the termination shock and/or heliopause!

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"Scientists discover huge nuclear fusion reaction in progress only 93 million miles from earth - visible to naked eye even during the day!"
My Celestia Add-ons site.

What exactly is termination shock and heliopause?

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This page explains it very well. (The 6th paragraph in particular)

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"Scientists discover huge nuclear fusion reaction in progress only 93 million miles from earth - visible to naked eye even during the day!"
My Celestia Add-ons site.

so...well still be recieving data from them once they pass the heliopause? Damn..well be recieving data from our own spacecraft from interstellar space. Am I right in that? Once they lkeave the heliopause, they will have left the solar system and will be in interstellar space?

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I'll keep a lookout for those Voyagers, folks. I'll let you know when they get here. I even baked a cake. #-o

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"Dear NASA: still going. Still dark here. Still cold. Today I met a very interesing Hydrogen atom.

Is everything okay on Earth? I haven't heard anything in a while.

-Love, Voyager."

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Earth to Voyager, whats going on out there?
Voyager to Earth, I just farted. #-o

So, have the voyagers come to the Ort cloud yet? Is it farther out still?

Voyager Chronicles, 2003

"I saw a dirty snowball,
said, it's name was Ort.
something so unusual,
I thought I must report.

It might have been a Kuiper,
Or Mickey's little dog.
I'll fly a little deeper
and post it in my log.

Here I find dark matter,
o'er which I'll ruminate,
I cannot choose the latter...
it won't illuminate!

It's now a little bumpy
at the termination shock,
and I'm a little jumpy,
just slowed from thirty mach!

Meet my new friend, Helio,
he gave me quite a pause,
then asked me "what's the deal-i-o?"
I said "researching gauss."

Now it's dark and cold ahead,
in interstellar space.
Seventeen more years 'til bed,
when I will win the race.

©J Pax
Feel free to quote or use or publish with my name

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J Pax

Not likely. The Oort Cloud could theoretically stretch halfway to the nearest star. A figure I have seen says the inner edge of the Oort Cloud is at about .3 ly. The Voyagers won't get there in for few thousand years, so don't wait up.

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In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will drift within 1.6 light years (9.3 trillion miles) of AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation of Camelopardalis. In some 296,000 years, Voyager 2 will pass 4.3 light years (25 trillion miles) from Sirius, the brightest start in the sky . The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way.

So, no word yet on Voyager 1 crossing the Termination Shock, eh? They figured it was 85 +/-5 AU from the Sun, so...interesting. :-k

Well, g'luck to ye, Voyagers (and ye Pioneers, tae)! :-({|=

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I thought it was more like 100 +/- 10 AU...

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I would think that some time in the future, the human race will retrieve them and put them in museum.

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Then again, it may be the Zeta Reticulans who take them home to erect a monument in our honor after Planet X smashes us

That is until Planet Z smacks them...

what goes around...

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J Pax

That would be quite the technological feat...

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Would be okay with me to retrieve one to put it into a museum. But I would let the other one go its way.

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It's funny, but I'm writing a story about something like that. In it, I actually take the museum to Voyager. By the time of the story, Voyager is long dead and thousands of AUs from the Sun, but I figure that's no problem for late 27th Century technology.

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No! Leave them both to be Man's perpetual museum in the heavens.

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