Re: where is that oort cloud...

Posted by anyman on Jun 26, 2002 at 23:13
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Re: where is that oort cloud...(wade et al) (DA Morgan)

did you bother to read any of this...

this is from the first two paragraphs of the very first link in your list :-)

Question:

Where do comets come from?

Answer:

Comets are believed to have two sources. Long-period comets (those which take more than 200 years to complete an orbit around the Sun) originate from the Oort Cloud. Short-period comets (those which take less than 200 years to complete an orbit around the Sun) originate from the Kuiper Belt.

Danish astronomer Jan Oort proposed that comets reside in a huge cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. This has come to be known as the Oort Cloud. Statistics imply that it may contain as many as a trillion comets and may account for a significant fraction of the mass of the solar system. However, since the individual comets are so small and so far away, we have no direct evidence about the actual existence of the Oort Cloud.

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question40.html

and it agrees precisely with what i said...

"...believed..." is a faith statement

"...we have no direct evidence about the actual existence of the Oort Cloud" is a reality statement

research is more than just plugging a keyword into a serach engine, dano

The comments about the Hitites likewise are flights of fantasy

you could do a literature search of things written before the turn of the 20th century...the ONLY references outside of the book that you will find regarding the hittites will be those denigrating the book for mentioning them since they supposedly didn't exist

now (and for at least the last 50yrs) you can find them prominently mentioned in most history texts that cover any part of that era, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc

time to wake up...nah, never mind, stay asleep :-)

you can live in a fantasy world filled with denial and shoulda woulda coulda, if you like...

but reality goes on with or without you :-)


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