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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by sidcool on Monday November 28, 2016 @09:26PM (#13060243)
> Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 1 is traveling from Earth, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of the year.

So obvious yet so mind blowing.

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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by patrickmn on Monday November 28, 2016 @11:21PM (#13060756)
We really are on a fragile blue ball doing loop-de-loops through space!
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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by lisper on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @03:08AM (#13061610)
If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a ping-pong ball, earth would be a poppy seed orbiting ten meters away. Pluto would be 100m away. The Voyagers would be 300m away.

The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be 500 miles away.

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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by wiz21c on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:04AM (#13062294)
Proxima Centauri is so far away that's depressing...
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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by ekianjo on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:35AM (#13062645)
the proxima is almost a joke in the name.
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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by enave on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:13AM (#13063928)
Well, there are three stars in the alpha centauri system. Proxima is the most proximate
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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by ekianjo on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:29AM (#13068701)
It is, but it's almost marginal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri#/media/File:Rel...

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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by lisper on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:26PM (#13067431)
> earth would be a poppy seed orbiting ten meters away

Correction: that should have been 10 feet (3 m). The other numbers are (more or less) correct.

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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by sidcool on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:31PM (#13068509)
Needs some metriculation /s
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Re:Where are the Voyagers? by RangerScience on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:35AM (#13061313)
Wiggly loop-de-loops.
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