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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
The Heliopause is lopsided and the solar wind slows down as it expands.
Average solar wind speed is around 900,000mph on sun spotless days and about 1.7 million miles per hour during solar maximum. Even then solar wind still likely takes years to reach the far side of the Heliopause.
A million miles per hour only works as an over simplified underestimated version of the sun as if the sun is always in solar minimum, even then it's wrong.
The Heliopause is believed to shrink during the solar minimum. Probably shrank a lot during the grand solar minimum. As the probes left during solar maximum peaks.
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1) The simplistic, spherical model of the Heliopause has an average diameter of 18,600-million miles.
2) To say that it's lop-sided implies that some instrument has captured a 'snapshot' of it.
3) What space probe is out there that, can simultaneously image the entire surface of an object that's 18,600-million miles in diameter, from which it's topography may be examined, exhibiting the asymmetry?
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4) Has the 'belief' that the heliosphere 'shrinks' been tested and proven to be true?
5) 'Probability' of shrinking implies that statistical analysis of Heliospheric data observed. That would have been published.