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Originally Posted by malloyd
This stuff is actually *entirely speculative*. Unless there is quite recent data, i.e. well after the publication of Spaceships, there are exactly zero actual observations of anything in the Oort Cloud or Hills Disk.
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If you're going to report speculations at all, you might as well report them correctly.
Kepler's Third Law, relating orbital radius to orbital period, is not speculative. The 200-year orbital period for "Oort Cloud" is quite impossible, and wrong by a factor of 5,000.