To: MrB
There's no “comet factory,” but there is a “comet bank” called the Kuiper belt out beyond the gas giants.
13 posted on
01/20/2011 6:39:26 AM PST by
VanShuyten
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To: VanShuyten
Kuiper belt and “Oort” cloud are hypothetical “rescuing devices” for the problem.
A few hundred KBO’s have been actually been observed,
but in order to be the source of short period comets,
there would have to be billions of observable ice balls out there.
16 posted on
01/20/2011 6:46:12 AM PST by
MrB
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