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how does Voyeur 1 not hit meteors?

The news is saying its getting close to leaving our solar system and has been traveling for 35 miles. It also takes 17 hours just to get a signal from it. So how has it not hit anything out there?

Update:

woww i meant to put years instead of miles. Epic fail

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  • 8 years ago
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    Answerer Andre's reply was strange but essentially correct.

    Artist's drawings and sci-fi movies make it seem as if space is crowded with celestial bodies large and small. This is because viewing empty space with only a few points of light is not visually stimulating.

  • 8 years ago

    That's VOYAGER One.

    The answer comes from Douglas Adams, from his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

    'Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.'

    PS. George HG is 100% wrong, the Voyagers have no radar, nor the power for one, if they had it, their thrusters cannot be used in such a way. They are used to keep the spacecraft antenna pointed at the Earth.

  • 8 years ago

    First u spell well...its Voyager-I. And not 35 miles but years from now it was launched.

    It passed through asteroid belt & never hit any of them coz even if asteroid belt picture shows millions of asteroids sucked together in belt shape between Mars & Jupiter, still average distance between any two asteroids in the asteroid belt is roughly 2.5 million square miles. And Voyager I is too tiny (just a few meters long & wide) with related to any gaps between any two asteroids. So it can pass easily between asteroids without hitting them.

    Source(s): Fascinated by Voyager Interstellar Space Program & grabbed much knowledge about.
  • 8 years ago

    I Understand that due to the number of ROCK and Roll Records on-board from the 1960's it keeps it moving on and on and on and away.

    No their is a little radar looking forward viewing it;s path. and when an object is noticed it make a small short blast of thrust which keeps it from hitting things. . However to not be sad I understand it will come back to us in a Star-Track Movie.

    Nothing above is true. Space is BIG, so big a flake of dust falling from a light in your home to the floor would have the same odds of hitting you if and when you walked by. Space is one very big place also like an ant falling off and air craft and hit another as it fell back to earth. BIG Space is BIG.

    As for its power it should burn out in the year 2025.

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