[extropy-chat] 10th Planet Discovered

[Brent Neal]

 (3/17/04 18:57) Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:

>Your last sentence doesn't make sense to me. The only 'damning'
>thing I can see regarding Sedna's orbit is that the object seems to
>come from the Oort Cloud.


You pretty much answered your own question. The orbits of those objects, in the opinion of some astronomers seem to be more consistent with those of either Oort or Kuiper objects, hence the comment.


B
-- 
Brent Neal
Geek of all Trades
http://brentn.freeshell.org

"Specialization is for insects" -- Robert A. Heinlein