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Aug 19, 2008

New minor planet helps explain comets

A newly discovered " minor planet " with an elongated orbit around the Sun may help explain the origin of comets, researchers said on Monday.

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Adrian in Tacoma

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Gotta be Pluto's counterpart, just as the sun's binary companion which makes it's closest approach every 65 million years on average - watch out Proximus Centauri...
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Aug 19, 2008
 
The object, known as 2006 SQ372,
Possibly born in the Oort Cloud,
(A distant reservoir of icy, asteroid-like bodies)
Has a 22,500-year orbit and at most
150 billion miles away from the Sun.
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Aug 19, 2008
 
Adrian in Tacoma wrote:
Gotta be Pluto's counterpart, just as the sun's binary companion which makes it's closest approach every 65 million years on average - watch out Proximus Centauri...
Are you referring to Sedna*?

* A distant, Pluto-like dwarf planet discovered in 2003, is the only other object with a similar orbit, but not nearly as stretched out.
Adrian in Tacoma

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truthist wrote:
<quoted text>Are you referring to Sedna*?
* A distant, Pluto-like dwarf planet discovered in 2003, is the only other object with a similar orbit, but not nearly as stretched out.
No, the other Planet X - you know the one that some of those ancient tribes have exhibited in pictogliphs... Those peculiar orbits may help to pry loose some of those particulars from the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt...
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Aug 21, 2008
 
Adrian in Tacoma wrote:
<quoted text>No, the other Planet X - you know the one that some of those ancient tribes have exhibited in pictogliphs... Those peculiar orbits may help to pry loose some of those particulars from the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt...
Ahh Nibiru?

http://xfacts.com/x.htm
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