On 26 Nov 2004 06:16:21 -0800, (Robert Clark)
wrote:

Solar System Surprise: A New View of What's Out There.
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 22 November 2004
06:24 am ET
"Given that our survey has covered almost the entire region of the
Kuiper Belt, I'm willing to bet these days that nothing larger than
Pluto will be found in the Kuiper Belt," says Caltech astronomer Mike
Brown."
...
"Brown, who now bets against finding Planet X in the Kuiper Belt,
thinks his group's discovery of Sedna portends an even more compelling
scenario.
"I'd also be willing to bet that there are many objects larger than
Pluto out in the region of space where Sedna lives," Brown said last
week. Out to about 1,000 AU, he speculates that there could be 10 or
20 Pluto-sized objects, "and a handful of larger things, too.' Some of
these suspected worlds could be as big as Mercury or even Mars, he
said."
"I asked Brown if there might be worlds larger than Pluto clear out at
the edge of the Oort Cloud, 1.5 light-years away and nearly half the
distance to the Alpha Centauri star system.
"Absolutely," he said. "Probably even likely."
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ay_041122.html

At what distance does the Suns gravational effect end?



Christopher
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"Never take anything for granted."

Benjamin Disraeli