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What wendy said. :') KRONOS pubbed or repubbed two of his papers (S.K. Vsekhsvyatskii), "The Origin and Evolution of the Comets and Other Small Bodies in the Solar System" and "The Ring of Comets and Meteorites Encircling Jupiter".

Interesting idea gleeaikin; it seems more likely that bombardments of the Earth come from objects within the Solar System -- but that could easily result from knowing more about such objects. Smaller objects at greater distances are more difficult to detect, and almost all of those detected so far are in orbit around the Sun.

Rogue Planet Find Makes Astronomers Ponder Theory
by Maggie Fox
October 5, 2000
Eighteen rogue planets that seem to have broken all the rules about being born from a central, controlling sun may force a rethink about how planets form, astronomers said on Thursday... "The formation of young, free-floating, planetary-mass objects like these is difficult to explain by our current models of how planets form," Zapatero-Osorio said... They are not linked to one another in an orbit, but do move together as a cluster, she said... Many stars in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have formed in a similar manner to the Orion stars, she said. So there could be similar, hard-to-see planets floating around free near the Solar System.

first one an earlier topic about this, the rest just related sidebars:




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