09-15-2013, 07:42 PM
Steamtrains Wrote:To repeat...The article says 11.6 MILLION miles. A billion is a thousand millions....
Yeah, I noticed the correction and then googled it.
NASA Wrote:PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.
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Either way, it is way farther than I can imagine, one much farther than the other...
-Dave