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Re:The first known object to enter our solar system from dee... by ldenneau on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:12AM (#15746937)
If there is one within 1 AU of the Sun at any given time, then there are ~10^16 of them within a sphere out to the nearest star. I'll leave it to you to decide whether that's teeming or not.
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Re:The first known object to enter our solar system from dee... by Tossrock on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:21AM (#15746968)
Dr. Denneau, what an honor that you dropped by this comment thread! Congratulations on the publication, it's a truly groundbreaking discovery :) 10^16 is pretty mindbogglingly huge, but then again so is 4 light years...
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Re:The first known object to enter our solar system from dee... by soVeryTired on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:18AM (#15747366)
Surely they're more dense near the sun? Not sure you can assume a uniform spacing and not account for the gravitational attraction. But I'm sure you know more about this than I do.
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Re:The first known object to enter our solar system from dee... by jerf on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:32AM (#15749062)
If they're not being captured, they're just being perturbed by the sun a bit, not collected.
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