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Mike Brown and Millie Dresselhaus: Exploring the very big and the very small

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The Experimentation of the Solar System

Pluto is quite eccentric. It even dips inside the orbit of neptune for a little bit before going back out. But it is not even close to being the most eccentric of the things that are out there. We now found these ones, like, like sedna, that are so eccentric that they take ten thousand years to go round the sun. There's an entire huge population of objects of all sorts, of orbits out there,. All, again, totally dominated by the planets of the solar system. This is work thatre irs a tremendous amount of calculating, isn't it? You do more calculations than you do viewing. By far. The amount of time at a telescope

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