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GreenWave

(11,355 posts)

6. No, you are not thinking out of the box.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 25, 2023, 09:40 AM

Feb 2023

Our solar system has way too many objects for its dinky yellow dwarf.

This is most likely from capturing objects when a passing solar system got too close for comfort AND

we may have a brown dwarf (not visible) in an exotic orbit to keep our yellow dwarf company and hold all those critters at bay!

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