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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Voyager, on to Uranus.
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 23:55:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 23:55:41 1985
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Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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Condensed fr. NY Daily News, by Edward Edelson, Science Editor.

	While the publicity builds for Halley's comet, Voyager II is plodding
steadily at 40,000 mph towards another planetary encounter.
	When it reaches it's next target, Uranus, Voyager will be more than
eight years from Earth and more than four years past its last target, Saturn.
	Comparatively little is known of Uranus. What is known that Uranus
is 64X the volume of the Earth, has five moons and a tedious set of dark
rings, discovered only in 1969.
	
	Most of the work will be done in a few hours when Voyager makes
its closest approach at 1 pm next January 24. (Mark your calendar -:))
The data will actually reach Earth 2 hrs 43 min later, from the satellites
25 watt radio transmitter (Only 25 watts - pretty amazing reception, if you
ask me!)
	After that it will reach Neptune on Aug 24, 1989, and then be propelled
downward out of the solar system.  (It's companion, Voyager I was propelled
upward out of solar system immediately after encountering Saturn)
	Signals should come from the satelites as long as their power holds
out, which could be as late as 2005 or 2010. (They run on Nuclear decay, if
I am not mistaken.)


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				Craig Werner
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"