bump for later.
Could be that they are interpreting their IR signals with a terracentric view.
It also seems a bit rash to me to be generalizing data for all Oort and Kuiper objects using data from just one.
"Could be that they are interpreting their IR signals with a terracentric view."
How horribly unprogressive. Down with terracentrism!
"It also seems a bit rash to me to be generalizing data for all Oort and Kuiper objects using data from just one"
Ditto. You know that a Pluto probe goes out next year, right? It's the fastest space vehicle ever made. It'll reach Pluto in 2015, and go on to the Kuiper Belt from there, giving scientists very important data on the early circumstances of life's evolution in the solar system. NASA & planetary scientists are caqlling this "the most important space science project of the next decade".
That is exactly what I was thinking! LOL