From: Yousuf Khan on
On 6/11/2010 10:20 PM, palsing wrote:
> On Jun 11, 9:04 am, Brad Guth<bradg...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 11, 7:06 am, Sam Wormley<sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Familiar comets may have distant roots
>>> More than 90 percent of objects found in the vast outer solar system
>>> reservoir may have been born around other stars, new computer
>>> simulations suggest.http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/60148/title/Familiar_comet...
>>
>> Such as from nearby Sirius.
>>
>> ~ BG
>
> There are at least 8 stars closer to us than Sirius right now. Why
> this unusual obsession with Sirius? After all, it is only temporarily
> close to the sun, for most of its existence it has been far, far away,
> and is only just now passing through our neighborhood.

He's convinced himself that he comes from there. :)

Yousuf Khan