The Big Boundary
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Dr. Walter Harris
Associate Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratroy
The Big Boundary
Our Sun is embedded in a very thin hot medium of gas that is moving at ~25 km/sec with respect to it. A portion of this interstellar medium is composed of charged particles that interact with the solar wind to form a massive interaction region at a distance three times greater than that of Pluto. In this talk we'll discuss the characteristics of the solar wind and interstellar plasma, how we believe they interact, and some of the ways we have tried to measure the interaction with spacecraft and from the Earth.
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