Excellent vid. of the Nov. 5th Voyager Conference. There were disagreements, however:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/voyager/
Members of the panel.
I liked what Dr. Stamatios had to say (ok, so I agree with him):
[The team led by Dr. Stamatios Krimigis of the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University described sharp changes in the velocity and in constituents of the so-called solar wind that Voyager 1 began flying through in August 2002. The spacecraft appeared to have entered the termination-shock region and about six months later, it re-entered a region of more normal solar wind conditions.
``This is our first direct look at the incredibly dynamic activity in the solar system's outer limits,'' Krimigis said.
The team found other arresting clues in Voyager data. Besides the braking solar wind, there was a hundredfold increase in the number of charged particles detected over the six-month period and some of the observed particles were different from the usual solar-wind material, meaning that probably came from beyond the solar system.]
From SiliconValley.com
More.
Hopefully, Voyager 2 will help settle the (remaining) arguments.
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