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To: Red Badger

So with Pluto, at approximately 3.3 billion miles from us, Voyager is about 4-1/2 times farther out from Earth than the dwarf. Is there any object closer to 15 billion miles than Pluto?


68 posted on 10/31/2024 1:06:56 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

Comets and stuff we can’t see................


70 posted on 10/31/2024 1:26:52 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Hatteras

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72 posted on 10/31/2024 1:32:55 PM PDT by TexasGator (FIXED! I. I I l I l l "l I l / .I lI . l I l l l I I l /l l . l l)
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To: Hatteras
"Is there any object closer to 15 billion miles than Pluto?"

Yes, including Eris and, I think, four other dwarf planets. This is why Pluto is not considered a planet anymore.

Eris is around twice as far from the sun as Pluto.

76 posted on 10/31/2024 1:41:07 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Hatteras

Google give: V774104 currently sits 15.4 billion kilometers from the sun, or 103 astronomical units (AU) away.

15.4 billion km equates to 9.57 billion miles.


80 posted on 10/31/2024 1:52:14 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Hatteras
So with Pluto, at approximately 3.3 billion miles from us, Voyager is about 4-1/2 times farther out from Earth than the dwarf. Is there any object closer to 15 billion miles than Pluto?

Everything to the right of the red vertical line labelled "Plutinos" in the following chart:

So: Only a couple of hundred that we know of (i.e., whose orbital data we have already reliably calculated).

Voyager 1 wouldn't even appear in this chart, since it's so far away (far off to the right of where the chart ends).

Regards,

90 posted on 11/01/2024 12:56:16 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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