Thread: Where is Voyager 2

I always went with :
- Low Earth Orbit
- Near the moon
- Somewhere around Pluto
- Really, Really far away. Like much further than the corner shop.

It's an interesting question. How would you assign a coordinate system to a theoretically continuously expanding space.

Originally Posted by BradC

I always went with :
- Low Earth Orbit
- Near the moon
- Somewhere around Pluto
- Really, Really far away. Like much further than the corner shop.

It's an interesting question. How would you assign a coordinate system to a theoretically continuously expanding space.

The first three I can get my head around.
The fourth sounds like a quote from The Hitch Hikers Guide 😁

Trying to get home from the Delta Quadrant?

Originally Posted by TonyC

The first three I can get my head around.
The fourth sounds like a quote from The Hitch Hikers Guide 😁

A quote? I don't think so. If it was a quote I'd have said something like “Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

If you'd said perhaps "inspired by" or "loosely resembled" then perhaps I may agree. Between Spike Milligan and Douglas Adams I shamelessly pillage and paraphrase. They're both dead, so I fear no lawsuits.

Originally Posted by TonyC

Hi All,

With Voyager 2 being in the news at the moment, got me wondering where it is.

NASA has a neat web site that let's you spin it around and see the solar system in the background, it gives a good picture of how far away it is, but how do you define "where" it is, when at 20 billion km away, it has no reference point/direction to earth, or even our solar system.

I assume there is a system to say "where" things in space are?

Tony

Sorry Tony, can't help you, I haven't got it.

Originally Posted by BradC

I always went with :
- Low Earth Orbit
- Near the moon
- Somewhere around Pluto
- Really, Really far away. Like much further than the corner shop.

It's an interesting question. How would you assign a coordinate system to a theoretically continuously expanding space.

Three dimensional co-ords at that. Clearly not with a Navman, it struggles with earthbound two dimensions.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Three dimensional co-ords at that.

Four. Time, as in 'by the time you've got there it will. be somewhere else'.

One thing is for certain, you need a big pair of ears to hear from that craft. You guys have one of them huge dishes sitting around somewhere on the continent that they use to actually be able to pick that thing up!

-P

Originally Posted by prelude;[URL="tel:3200198"

3200198[/URL]]One thing is for certain, you need a big pair of ears to hear from that craft. You guys have one of them huge dishes sitting around somewhere on the continent that they use to actually be able to pick that thing up!

-P

They even made a movie about it….. well, sort of.
The Dish (2000) - IMDb