Voyager I Enters Interstellar space :)

[ngauger]

To repeat...The article says 11.6 MILLION miles. A billion is a thousand millions....

Yeah, I noticed the correction and then googled it.

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...

Well - the fastest way I thought of to settle this one was to Google the orbit of Pluto

Aphelion (Farthest from The Sun): 7,311,000,000 km --- That's 7.3 Billion km So.. The Billion Miles is correct, since "Million" would be well inside the orbit of the Earth (152 Million km)... Are you smarter than a 5th grader??

So, NASA is correct But we already knew that --- right?????