Recent content by Jack Dash

Thanks Chronos, I am aware of this but, as far as I know, no one has come up with a mechanism for this to have happened. What I am suggesting is a simpler way for it to have formed, it's the remnants of the Centaury Kuiper belts. There are various estimates of the radius of the cloud, many...

I have seen several posts on the web that put the Oort cloud at anything up to 3 LY away. What no one seems to consider is that the gravitational mid point between the sun and Alpha centaury is at 1.5LY from our sun. This means that any object in the Oort that is orbiting further out than...

In writing a science fiction novel, I set it against a backdrop of the Oort cloud and, as part of the plot, I needed to speculate on its origins. Recognising my limitations, I would like some expert feedback on my ideas. The first idea I use in my book is that Centaury A & B both developed...