Slashdot: Voyager Passes 100 AU from the Sun

Posted on August 19th, 2006 in Thoughts, technology by robint

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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 16, @04:29PM
from the they-don’t-build-em-like-they-used-to dept.
An anonymous reader writes “Yesterday, Voyager 1 passed 100 astronomical units from the sun as it continues operating after nearly 30 years in space. That is about 15 billion kilometers or 9.3 billion miles as it travels about 1 million miles per day. Scientists still hope it will find the edge of the solar system and get into interstellar space.”
I can kind of wrap my mind around this.  It might be fun to have kids design a scale model and research points on the history of Voyager 1… might look good on the library wall.

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