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reply posted on 20-3-2005 @ 11:09 AM by Byrd
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Guys... go back and read the news. I don't know who let that article slip in over at New Scientist, but they should be whacked a few times with the Salmon Of Science until THEY go read the news.

There's a tenth and eleventh planet out there, already... remember Sedna?

www.abovetopsecret.com...

(etc, etc, etc)
www.gps.caltech.edu...

www.nasa.gov...

Anyway, Ye Writer of Ye Article needs to spend just a bit more time reading research papers... there's been a lot of discussion of this in the astronomical literature since 1998. The general consensus is that:
* There's actually no sharp "cliff" but it rather gradually fades in
* That much of it can be accounted for by something called "resonance sweeping" (discussion of this and lots of calculations are here: arxiv.org... )
* That the way Neptune formed and settled into its orbit has a lot to do with this.
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