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To: timer

Thanks for explaining. Amazing stuff *bump*


26 posted on 12/03/2004 6:36:19 AM PST by nicollo
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To: nicollo

It is laid-back fun to ponder what is out there in the Oort cloud. Usually the comets residing therein are pictured as a bunch of random dots, evenly distributed. That can't be the case as the T Tauri birth phase of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago was organized, not a random coalescence from the Mother Molecular birth cloud. To wit, the sun and planets are just a big saturn ring system wherein 99% of the mass goes into the central primary(of the original lenticular shape)but 99% of the cloud's original spin angular momentum goes into the orbiting planets and other minor debris(from the dust lane/accretion vortices by Bode's Law). Thus the comets, far from the sun, have the most SAM of the system, but as we look at galaxies and other assemblages in the universe, we see some kind of STRUCTURE, as in the primitive globular clusters orbiting the milky way. So, imagination time : just what is that overall STRUCTURE of trillions of comets in the Oort cloud out to 50,000 AU?


29 posted on 12/03/2004 11:37:00 PM PST by timer
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