Er werd eergisteren weliswaar weer een hoop de lucht in geknald, maar erg ver kwam het niet vergeleken met de Pioneer 10 en 11, en Voyager 1 en 2 probes. Nieuwsgierig naar wanneer die een andere ster gaan tegenkomen togen een paar ter zake vernuftigen aan de slag.
The researchers found that the four spacecraft will come somewhat close to approximately 60 stars over the course of the next 1 million years—and will come within two parsecs of approximately 10 of them. They also found that Pioneer 10 will likely be the first to pass by a star system—one called HIP 117795. It sits in the constellation Cassiopeia. Their calculations show that the spacecraft will pass within 0.231 parsecs of the star in approximately 90,000 years.
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-spacecraft-star.html
Ref:
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/missions/archive/pioneer10-11.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_leaving_the_Solar_System
Via populairmechanics >
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a30345230/calculating-interstallar-distances/
