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Astronomy show accidentally reveals unseen structure in our solar system (www.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/space@mander.xyz

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[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We have never detected a single object (in situ) from this theorized population. There is no data.

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, my mistake. There is no data. When the article goes on and on about the data, the data referred to here,

To investigate, Faherty got in touch with David Nesvorny, an institute scientist with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and the Oort Cloud expert who had provided scientific data for the scene.

I should have realized there was no data.