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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: Voyager, on to Uranus.
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Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 10:34:39 EDT
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> 
> The more important question (at least to me) is, where is it going to?
> I worked on Voyager back around 1976, and I asked one of the researchers
> once, "What star is going closest to?  And how close will it get?"  I
> got a "We'll get back to" type of response.
> 
> So again, nine years later, "Where's it going?"

Nowhere.  It is not pointing anywhere near the nearest stars.  By the time
it gets very far all the stars will have moved.  We have no idea where it
might end up, but odds are that it will never pass close to another
planetary system.
-- 

"Don't argue with a fool.      Ethan Vishniac
 Borrow his money."            {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                               Department of Astronomy
                               University of Texas