Voyager 2 to Cross Solar Wind "Termination Shock" Boundary
Voyager 2 to Cross Solar Wind "Termination Shock" Boundary
Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a
physicist at University of California, Riverside, has predicted
when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the
“termination shock†the spherical shell around the solar system
that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed
at 7-8.5 billion miles from the sun in late 2007-early 2008.
Full article here:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/11/voyaer-11-to-cr.html