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Query:

Subject: If the sun has enough gravity to orbit comets, then why not the voyager?

Date: Thu Aug 27 14:51:58 1998
Posted by Tyler Wahlquist
Grade level: 4-6
School: August Knott
City: Weston Ranch State/Province: California
Country: USA
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 904247518.As
Message:

We are told that the voyager space craft is on the way out of your 
solar system, never to return.  Why will this happen when comets 
trailing faster than voyager are slowed and then pulled back in by 
the sun's gravity?


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