Originally published at: The most distant known object in the solar system | Boing Boing
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Do you want Mi-Go? Because this is how you get Mi-go!
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If I were a guessing man (which I have to be since I’m not an astrophysicist), I’d say that given an orbit like that, it probably is a result of the same cosmic event that put Pluto in its orbit. It wouldn’t surprise me if that also is what put Uranus on its side.
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Umm… you should probably get that looked at.
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Hundreds of astronomers now join search for hypothetical FarFarFarFarOut.
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That orbit, however, isn’t an even circle around the Sun, but a really lopsided oval.
Uhm, didn’t we learn this from Galileo and Kepler hundreds of years before this was discovered?
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/7010/CM_15_Keplerian_Orbits.html
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Well, the Oort Cloud begins about 2000AU. It would be interesting to discover anything sizeable out there. There is speculation that planet-sized objects are there.
Damn, I need to get out of town, to a dark-sky location on a clear night. It’s been way too long since I have looked at Infinity…
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Quick look in the search engine (goggel was the first I used) and 400k is the length of Sweden (if mapped inside of a quadrangle north pointing)
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