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A major clue to Nemesis’s existence is a mysterious dwarf planet called Sedna that was spotted on an elongated 12,000-year-long orbit around the sun.

Mike Brown, who discovered Sedna in 2003, said: “Sedna is a very odd object – it shouldn’t be there! It never comes anywhere close to any of the giant planets or the sun. It’s way, way out there on this incredibly eccentric orbit.

The only way to get on an eccentric orbit is to have some giant body kick you – so what is out there?”

Professor John Matese, of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, says most comets in the inner solar system seem to come from the same region of the Oort Cloud – launched by the pull of a companion star to the sun that scatters comets in its wake.

He suggests it is up to five times the size of Jupiter or 7,000 times the size of Earth.


3 posted on 03/19/2010 7:32:32 PM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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Well, at at least the Nirubu freaks have SOME relevance now (But this thing is NOT going to come through the Solar System in 2012...)


6 posted on 03/19/2010 7:35:00 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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We don’t really know if Sedna is an odd object or not. Its in the least know part of our solar system and might turn out to be one of many similar objects.


12 posted on 03/19/2010 7:42:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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