When will Voyager 1 and 2 cross the termination shock?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Izmodenov, Vlad ^a   Gloeckler, George ^b   Malama, Yuri ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Heliospheric termination shock; Interstellar atoms; Local interstellar cloud; Pickup ions; Voyager spacecraft

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; IONIZATION; SHOCK WAVES; SOLAR SYSTEM; WIND; ATOMS; CONVOLUTION; PICKUPS; SPACECRAFT; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; WIND EFFECTS;

SOLAR WIND; CHARGED COMPONENTS; HELIOSPHERIC INTERFACES; LOCAL INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS; MULTI-COMPONENT MODELING; PICK-UP IONS; SOLAR WIND PRESSURE BALANCE; TERMINATION SHOCKS; VOYAGER SPACECRAFT;

GEOPHYSICS; SOLAR WIND;

IONOSPHERE; SPACE TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0141539298     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016127     Document Type: Article

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