Where Does the Solar System End? - Naked Science Scrapbook
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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?More videos and podcasts from http://www.thenakedscientists.com
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How could you not mention the golden record?
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Fantastic video, keep up the great work! The Podcast is brilliant.
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Sorry dude but I prefer the woman.
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I remember I did an experiment with this in middle school. We used toilet paper rolls to mark out the distances of the planets. The earth was 2.6 toilet papers away from the sun, Jupiter was 13.4, Neptune was 77.8 and the oort cloud (which we obviously didn't put on the toilet paper) was 7.48 times 10 to the 12 power, or 7,480,000,000,000 toilet papers from the sun. "/
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