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skykooler on Dec 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?

Would that explain why there's a gap between the outside of the Kuiper Belt and the inside of the Oort Cloud?

flukus on Dec 20, 2018 [–]

That would be well beyond my knowledge or ability to say.

It certainly seems plausible, it may even explain the existence of the Kuiper belt, being held in the balance between Neptune and this planet much like the inner belt is by Mars and Jupiter.

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