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It's a satellite which was all made of ice, and we measured it from orbit.
This is a picture here taken from orbit.
And the reason it has to be sub-orbital is, there is not solutions for adequate safety to fly the public to orbit.
But I think once it does, we will find solutions, and very quickly, you'll see those resort hotels in orbit.
It took thousands of people and 44 years to get the Hubble Space Telescope from an idea into orbit.
But for those 20 years, an unbelievable number of really eminent and accomplished figures in the wine world were sort of drawn into the orbit of these bottles.
To make things a little bit worse, most of what we launch into orbit never comes back.
We send the satellite in orbit, it stops working, it runs out of fuel, and we send something else up ... and then we send up something else ... and then something else.
And every once in a while, two of these things will collide with each other or one of these things will explode, or even worse, somebody might just happen to destroy one of their satellites on orbit, and this generates many, many more pieces, most of which also never come back.
Now these things are not just randomly scattered in orbit.
The problem with that, however, is that ask five different people, "What's going on in orbit?
It's because information about things on orbit is not commonly shared either.
As Stephen Hawking famously said, we're just a chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet that's in orbit around a typical star, which is on the outskirts of a typical galaxy, and so on.
They realized that there must be a distant, giant planet just beyond the orbit of Uranus that was tugging along at that orbit, sometimes pulling it along a bit too fast, sometimes holding it back.
And when they did, those better measurements had turned out that there is no planet just beyond the orbit of Uranus and Neptune and Pluto is thousands of times too small to have any effect on those orbits at all.
So even though Pluto turned out not to be the planet it was originally thought to be, it was the first discovery of what is now known to be thousands of tiny, icy objects in orbit beyond the planets.
The real question we had was, what kind of orbit does it have around the Sun?
They did it by using overlooked observations of Uranus from 91 years before its discovery to figure out its entire orbit.
So the question is, is it in a circular orbit around the Sun, like a planet, or is it on its way back in, like one of these typical icy bodies?
It has a massively elongated orbit that takes 10,000 years to go around the Sun.
Relatively typical, except for this bizarre orbit.
You might look at this orbit and say, "Yeah, that's bizarre, 10,000 years to go around the Sun," but that's not really the bizarre part.
If Sedna had had an orbit like this, that kisses the orbit of Neptune once around the Sun, that would have actually been really easy to explain.
That would have just been an object that had been in a circular orbit around the Sun in that region of icy bodies, had gotten a little bit too close to Neptune one time, and then got slingshot out and is now on its way back in.
But 4.5 billion years ago, when the Sun formed in a cocoon of hundreds of other stars, any one of those stars could have gotten just a little bit too close to Sedna and perturbed it onto the orbit that it has today.
When that cluster of stars dissipated into the galaxy, the orbit of Sedna would have been left as a fossil record of this earliest history of the Sun.
We could come up with no other explanation other than that there is a distant, massive planet on an elongated orbit, inclined to the rest of the solar system, that is forcing these patterns for these objects in the outer solar system.
Remember that strange orbit of Sedna, how it was kind of pulled away from the Sun in one direction?
A host of private companies have plans to deploy tens of thousands of satellites into Earth orbit, where they will not only outnumber, literally outnumber the visible stars in the sky, while also beaming invisible light back to Earth.
And the tool that we use is to watch the way stars orbit the black hole.
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