Thursday, June 02, 2005

Wikipedia

I found out today that that the spacecraft Voyager 1 has crossed the termination shock. In astronomy, the termination shock is theorised to be a boundary marking one of the outer limits of the sun's influence. It is where the bubble of solar wind particles slows down to below supersonic speed and heats up due to collisions with the galactic interstellar medium. It is believed to be about 100 Astronomical Units from the Sun. Check out Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, at

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