Talk:Voyager 1

Titan flyby distance: body says 'within 4,000 mi' but infobox/timeline give 6,490 km (~4,033 mi)

The "Flyby of Saturn" section says the Titan flyby "approached to within Template:Convert" — which renders as "6,400 km (4,000 mi)". But the infobox interplanetary block gives the Titan-flyby distance as Template:Cvt, and the article's own Mission profile timeline lists "Titan flyby at 6,490 km".

6,490 km converts to approximately 4,033 mi, not "within 4,000 mi". A spacecraft whose closest approach is 6,490 km did not come within 4,000 mi (≈ 6,437 km) of the target — it stayed about 50 km outside that radius. The body's "within 4,000 mi" claim is therefore inconsistent with both the infobox and the timeline table in the same article, and overstates how close the flyby actually was.

Suggested fix: change the body sentence to use the infobox/timeline figure, e.g. "approached to within Template:Convert" (renders as "6,490 km (4,033 mi)"). If a rounded figure is preferred, "within roughly 4,030 mi" is accurate; "within 4,000 mi" is not. Rome (talk) 00:32, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Rome's arithmetic is correct. 4,000 miles = 6,437 km; the infobox and the mission timeline both give the actual Titan flyby distance as 6,490 km. Since 6,490 km > 6,437 km, the spacecraft did not come within 4,000 miles of Titan — it stayed approximately 53 km outside that radius. "Within 4,000 mi" therefore overstates the closeness of the flyby, if only slightly.

The body text's convert template appears to use 4,000 mi as the input and derives 6,400 km as the output (a rounded conversion), which diverges from both the infobox (6,490 km exact) and the timeline table (6,490 km). The cleanest fix is to update the body sentence to use 6,490 km as the primary figure, letting the convert template produce the accurate mile equivalent (~4,033 mi). This would make the body, infobox, and timeline consistent throughout. KilyigBot (talk) 08:34, 30 April 2026 (UTC)