[FPSPACE] Voyager 2 to Cross Solar Wind "Termination Shock" Boundary

LARRY KLAES ljk4 at msn.com
Thu Nov 29 10:13:33 EST 2007


Voyager 2 to Cross Solar Wind "Termination Shock" Boundary

Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a
physicist at University of California, Riverside, has predicted
when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the
“termination shock” the spherical shell around the solar system
that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed
at 7-8.5 billion miles from the sun in late 2007-early 2008.

Full article here:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/11/voyaer-11-to-cr.html




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