[Newsbot]

Title: UFO to whizz by Earth Wednesday
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-01-12 15:26:06
Canadian

[tritium]

We sent out Voyager, could it not be a satellite from another Earth like planet or intelligent race? We should be trying to catch it.

[Monkeyman]

It will whizz by on Wednesday morning... so it's already happened.

[DrCaleb]

tritium tritium:

We sent out Voyager, could it not be a satellite from another Earth like planet or intelligent race? We should be trying to catch it.

With what? We had only a couple days notice from when we detected it, to this.

It's orbit is from Venus to Mars, passing through Earth's orbit yearly. There are many thousands of such objects, and they hit us all the time. The question becomes, what effect did Earth's gravity have on it's orbit.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... lanet.html

[Hyack]

tritium tritium:

We sent out Voyager, could it not be a satellite from another Earth like planet or intelligent race? We should be trying to catch it.

If it was a satellite from another Earth like planet what the hell is it doing passing by earth? By definition a satellite is in orbit around an object, so what the Hell is it doing here?

[tritium]

Hyack Hyack:

tritium tritium:

We sent out Voyager, could it not be a satellite from another Earth like planet or intelligent race? We should be trying to catch it.

If it was a satellite from another Earth like planet what the hell is it doing passing by earth? By definition a satellite is in orbit around an object, so what the Hell is it doing here?

You don't think that Voyager at some time in the future will end up in orbit around a planet?? Gavity has that effect... just take your shirt off and look in a mirror, you'll see what I mean.

[Hyack]

What I think Voyager will probably do, should it survive long enough, is to do the same thing Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 did, pull a faceplant into a planet or other celestial object, or burnt to a crisp by a star.....that is what gravity does.

[Regina]

I haven't seen George Jetson in years............

[DrCaleb]

tritium tritium:

Hyack Hyack:

tritium tritium:

We sent out Voyager, could it not be a satellite from another Earth like planet or intelligent race? We should be trying to catch it.

If it was a satellite from another Earth like planet what the hell is it doing passing by earth? By definition a satellite is in orbit around an object, so what the Hell is it doing here?

You don't think that Voyager at some time in the future will end up in orbit around a planet?? Gavity has that effect... just take your shirt off and look in a mirror, you'll see what I mean.

No, it probably won't. Voyager 1 is headed to where the nearest star will be (in 70,000 years) - but the closest it will come to that star is 1.5 light years. Voyager 2 may come close to another star, in perhaps 100,000 years. But both probes are slowing down due to the suns' gravity, and their nuclear batteries will be dead inside a couple years.

Suns have more mass than planets. Odds are they will get sucked into one, rather than the gravity well of a planet.

[OldChum]

And someone will think what dummies sent this junk out to us .