Do scientists usually announce things that they might be about to discover? That could take a lot of ink and electrons.
The existance of the hypothetical and unobserved “Oort cloud” is very important to a certain worldview.
Without it, short period comets cannot be explained.
Notice, though, how the article is written, with the Oort cloud assumed as a fact.
“Do scientists usually announce things that they might be about to discover?...”
Only when writing another grant...
>> “Do scientists usually announce things that they might be about to discover?” <<
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Great way to get federal funding, they’ve been doing it with the AIDS ‘virus’ for a quarter of a century without finding a thing.
Good catch.
Maybe they are giving folks a chance to set up a betting pools....8^)
They announced finding it in ‘88. Then they went quiet about it until now. Interesting that they recently reported that we might be seeing two suns in the sky when a nova explodes... Don’t be alarmed. It’s a regular kinda thing!
Astromony has a global warming feel to it these days.