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11 | Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Hyper Belt

The hyper belt was named after kyper, who predicted a belt of ice balls beyond pluto. There are two flavors of comet that come into the solar system: one comes in from an air cloud and another from clouds around the sun. Are these really two clearly distinct populations, or do they kind of blend in? We don't know very much about the transition from the kyperbelt to the or cloud.

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