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Re: Most distant Solar System object detected

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From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: Most distant Solar System object detected


|
|>What distinguishes what we have come to call ' the outer gaseous planets'
|>from what may be former comets trapped in orbit around the sun?
|>(Specifically, the large ones, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
|>Neptune.............Pluto waffles:-)
|
|Well, all of the four gaseous planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and
|Uranus) are huge in size, and are mainly made up of gases like hydrogen and
|helium.  All of the comets and Kuiper Belt objects are solid objects
|made up primarily of rock and ice.
|
|Ron Baalke


Sorry, Ron, this is an old question I had that popped into mind on reading
this BBC article.  My question actually was not related to the Kuiper Belt
Objects, or those in resonance with Neptune, or thrown off by Neptune.
(Sorry for the confusion)  I was referring to very large comets in the
formative stages of our solar system being trapped in heliocentric orbit.
Their melted ice may have provided the inner rocky planets with water.
What about the gases associated with comets and the large planets?  Are they
the same but in different proportions?

Cheers,
Julia



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