Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented"

Selikoff writes "NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has found that our solar system is not round but is 'dented' by the local interstellar magnetic field, space experts said on Monday. The data were gathered by the craft on its 30-year journey when it crossed into a region called the 'termination shock.' The data showed that the southern hemisphere of the solar system's heliosphere is being pushed in. Voyager 2 is the second spacecraft to enter this region of the solar system, behind Voyager 1, which reached the northern region of the heliosheath in December 2004."

Obviously

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously, the reason the solar system is dented is because God dropped it.

Re:I, for one...

[Kranfer]

I find it amazing as well. However, I know that someday Voyager will stop functioning and will shut down from lack of nuclear fuel... or be destroyed by Klingons... or even return to Earth is a horrible epic adventure involving the Enterprise....

Dented?

[Centurix]

Good job we have third party insurance on this sucker, I'd hate to see what we hit...

Re:Obviously

[Anonymous Coward]

Oops, sorry.

-God

It seems logical

[laejoh]

that the birthplace of Arthur, Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, contains something that appears Dent(ed).

Re:I, for one...

[Eternauta3k]

Actually, voyager 1 and 2 stopped working after a few months, current "findings" are just invented by NASA.

My bad

[commodoresloat]

Sorry folks, this was my fault. The folks were out of town and I figured I'd take the solar system out for a spin. I took a hard right to dodge a black hole and one thing led to another... Anyway, sorry about the dent; I'll pay for the damage.

Re:human defined?

[somersault]

McDonalds?

Re:Halp!

[JustOK]

Up is the shortest distance out of your head. In most cases, its best if "up" is not in the same direction as the dominant gravity source.

Re:Shape?

[rucs_hack]

Basically the suns solar winds push back interstellar matter. This can have a shape.

So what your saying is, out there in interstellar space is a giant space kitteh saying 'I has a shape, let me apply it to you'.

If it drops some giant space kitteh kibble while doing this, we are so screwed..

Re:Halp!

[andphi]

The Enemy's Gate is Down.

another ding in the solar system

[yagu]

Should have parked farther out, not close to any other solar systems. Probably won't even meet the deductible.

I have updated Wikipedia to reflect this

[thomasdz]

RE: "Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented", and "our solar system is not round"
The Wikipedia entry for "Solar System" has a bunch of silly stuff about planets and moons and asteroids and other useless stuff, so I've deleted it all and replaced it with the much more informative: "not round, but Round-ish" ...update: Grrr... some wiki-fanboi perfectionist editor has corrected it to read "sphere-ish" ... oh well, at least my edit has a reference source so I guess I'll just take it up with Jimmy Wales

Re:I don't get it

[hey!]

My hat is off to you. You, sir, are a master of irony.

King of All Cosmos went on a bender again...

[Genom]

Looks like the Prince has some rolling to do.

Re:Halp!

[rb4havoc]

So basically, Uranus is the Dennis Rodman of Planets?

Re:Halp!

[TimeTraveler1884]

Most of the Milky Way galaxy follows this rule, in conjunction with Earth (excepting Uranus, not a team player).

No kidding, that guy is a real ass.

The Truth

[ScotlynHatt]

Okay folks, I have some bad news for you. Human space exploration is deforming the universe and stuff. You heard it here first. I declare this anomaly "Universal Warming." What's higher than the Nobel prize?

Well that's just great.

[El Yanqui]

This is why we can't have nice things.

I should have check....

[Lost Penguin]

Never buy a solar system without a starfax history report....