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Where Does the Solar System End? - Science Scrapbook 13.11.12

Where Does the Solar System End? - Science Scrapbook 13.11.12

Update: 2013-11-12
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Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system's gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. But now it's so far away that the Solar wind has weakened and a deluge of cosmic particles from intergalactic space is assailing it. Now interstellar space awaits. But where does the Solar system end and this new frontier begin?
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Where Does the Solar System End? - Science Scrapbook 13.11.12

Where Does the Solar System End? - Science Scrapbook 13.11.12

Dr Chris Smith, The Naked Scientists