Things Are Really Weird in The Outer Solar System, And We May Have Figured Out Why

Most of the Solar System is pretty well behaved, but in the distant reaches, out past the orbit of Neptune and far from the light of the Sun, things can get a little… strange. There are a bunch of rocks orbiting the Sun in patterns totally different from the objects found closer in.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Things Are Really Weird in The Outer Solar System, And We May Have Figured Out Why

Most of the Solar System is pretty well behaved, but in the distant reaches, out past the orbit of Neptune and far from the light of the Sun, things can get a little… strange. There are a bunch of rocks orbiting the Sun in patterns totally different from the objects found closer in.

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They can get really weird closer in, too.

I’m going to pretend that this article doesn’t exist. Chalk it up as a minor mystery compared to the Oort cloud and the origins of comets.