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To: mad_as_he$$
But if our Apple laptops can interface with it we can give it a virus!

Also, if it's near Pluto why would it take almost two years to get here? Is it going about 50mph? Aren't there any "fast" lanes on the intergalactic highway?

49 posted on 01/01/2011 9:01:52 AM PST by aegiscg47
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To: aegiscg47
Also, if it's near Pluto why would it take almost two years to get here?

In fact, that is unbelievably fast! Pluto orbits the sun at about 40 A.U. - that's 5.9 billion km (it's semi-major axis). Which means that these unknown bodies would not be in orbit around our sun - rather, they would be extra-solar bodies on a hyperbolic trajectory through our solar system.

The Voyager probes took decades to travel from the Earth to beyond Pluto's orbit.

Regards,

62 posted on 01/01/2011 9:12:41 AM PST by alexander_busek
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