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Jupiter-sized object lurking at the solar system’s edge, affecting Earth.
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Found this pretty interesting
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A century of comet data suggests a dark, Jupiter-sized object is lurking at the solar system’s outer edge and hurling chunks of ice and dust toward Earth.
In 1999, Matese and colleague Daniel Whitmire suggested the sun has a hidden companion that boots icy bodies from the Oort Cloud, a spherical haze of comets at the solar system’s fringes, into the inner solar system where we can see them.
Rather than a malevolent death star, a smaller and more benign companion called Tyche (
Nemesis’ good sister in Greek mythology
) could send comets streaming from the Oort Cloud toward Earth
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