WASHINGTON — A new study of fringe comets could let the outer solar system lose some weight.
Simulations of the most distant objects in the solar system suggest that, counter to long-standing thinking, the comets that swing past Earth can originate in the inner region of the Oort Cloud, not just from its outer fringes.
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