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blufive ([personal profile] blufive) wrote2003-02-26 07:21 pm

bye...

After nearly 31 years, at a distance of 82 AUs (7.6 billion miles), NASA has lost contact with Pioneer 10.

Barring any problems en route, it should pass somewhere near1 Aldebaran in about 2 million years.

1For astronomical definitions of the word "near", anyhow.

[link: Eric Meyer]