Voyager Solar System Exit
Cluster focuses on debates about whether Voyager probes have fully escaped the solar system, including discussions of the heliosphere, Oort cloud, potential orbits, and comparisons to interstellar objects like Oumuamua.
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Soon Voyager will be another planets Ouamuamua
again? it seems like we hear about this about as often as voyager leaving the solar system...
Does it mean Voyager hasn't really escaped Sun's influence yet?
is it possible that it's just on an extreme orbit and we may one day reconnect?
Somewhere in the Oort cloud, perhaps.
How did the Voyagers avoid hitting asteroids when exiting the solar system? I thought there was a huge cloud of asteroids surrounding our solar system.
Related:Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System (308 points, 26 days ago, 171 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44451329Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas (3 points, 7 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/
Could it be cloud of asteroids like the oort cloud?
What if Voyager 1 is sensing things it's dragging with it?
Related article that may be of interest: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engine...