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Man made items that are leaving the solar system

Posted on 6/11/22 at 11:59 am
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 11:59 am
We all know about the 5 probes (Pioneers, Voyagers, and New Horizons). But there are other objects that are leaving the solar system as a result of those missions and we have no way to track them.

Pioneer 10 third stage, a TE364-4 variant of the Star-37 solid fuel rocket.[18]

Voyager 1 fourth stage, a Star 37E solid fuel rocket.[19]

Voyager 2 fourth stage, a Star 37E solid fuel rocket.[19]

New Horizons third stage, a Star 48B solid fuel rocket, is on a similar escape trajectory out of the Solar System to New Horizons, even arriving at Jupiter six hours before New Horizons. On October 15, 2015 it passed Pluto's orbit at a distance of 213 million kilometers (over 1 AU) distant from Pluto.[20][21] This was four months after New Horizons' Pluto flyby.[22]

In addition, two small yo-yo de-spin weights on wires were used to reduce the spin of the New Horizons probe prior to its release from the third-stage rocket. Once the spin rate was lowered, these masses and the wires were released, and so are also on an escape trajectory out of the Solar System
Posted by 91TIGER
Lafayette
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:00 pm to
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:01 pm to
So, litter stacked, solar system fricked?
Posted by LSU CRAZY
Da Bestbank!!
Member since Dec 2004
3454 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:01 pm to
Crime in the solar system out of control!
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:02 pm to
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:04 pm to
Humans really do love trashing things up.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:05 pm to
Earth space programs be all like to the rest of the universe

Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:07 pm to
That manhole cover on the Pascal-B nuke test is out there somewhere.
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
41142 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:10 pm to
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American made items that are leaving the solar system


& the rest of the world hasn't made it to the moon yet!

frick the metric system
Posted by jamboybarry
Member since Feb 2011
32638 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:12 pm to
Antiquetiger gonna be in outer space looking for junk to resell on eBay
Posted by FleurDeLonestar
The Dirty HOU
Member since Mar 2011
6158 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:13 pm to
If those things are passing Pluto orbit, they are out there zooming through space.

ETA - looked it up and Voyager is moving at 50,000 MPH
This post was edited on 6/11/22 at 12:17 pm
Posted by white perch
the bright, happy side of hell
Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:20 pm to
Don’t forget that Russian dude they lost up there. I wonder where he’s at now?
Posted by jaytothen
Member since Jan 2020
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:22 pm to
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ETA - looked it up and Voyager is moving at 50,000 MPH


Talk about gas savings
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
35893 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:31 pm to
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That manhole cover on the Pascal-B nuke test is out there somewhere.



I remember reading about that one
Posted by Undertow
Member since Sep 2016
7291 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:52 pm to
A lot of people are sure of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and that they are probably more advanced than us. But what if we are the most advanced civilization and someone else discovers our man-made stuff. Their imaginations would surely run wild with thoughts of how we are.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:55 pm to
Braxxtyns home run in the little league World Series
Posted by Le Tenia
Member since Feb 2015
4444 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 12:55 pm to
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50,000 MPH


Not jumping on that thing to catch a lift.
Posted by alphaandomega
Tuscaloosa
Member since Aug 2012
13446 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 1:04 pm to
Some alien spaceship will be flying along at warp 60 and hit some of our debris, scratching the paint on the spaceship.

They will figure out where it came from and come road rage us into oblivion.

We are so screwed.

Posted by LSUneaux
NOLA
Member since Mar 2014
4483 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 1:14 pm to
We are permanently losing matter on earth, albeit maybe a couple hundred pounds of material. Better start digging up some resources on the moon or mars to make up for it.
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
19488 posts
Posted on 6/11/22 at 1:25 pm to

Someday in the next hundred years, ground control will mysteriously lose contact with the first manned, multi-generational ship to a nearby star. They’ll never know that the ship was destroyed by two small yo-yo de-spin weights on wires from the New Horizons probe.
This post was edited on 6/11/22 at 1:26 pm
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