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To: webheart

hang on a second.... our solar system??

don’t you think we would have seen them by now??

and didn’t they say that our solar system really ends at the Oort Cloud??


8 posted on 01/15/2015 3:54:00 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

If they are far enough away they may only have moved through a small portion of their orbit since people had access to real astronomical telescopes.


20 posted on 01/15/2015 3:59:37 PM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: GeronL
The Oort cloud is still theorhetical but likely and possibly believed to extend nearly half way to Alpha Centauri.

The definitions of what is and isn't in our solar system is kind of open to interpretation. In my interpretation, anything under the gravitational influence of our sun is within the solar system.


25 posted on 01/15/2015 4:04:18 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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