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Space object with orbit stretching into the Oort cloud discovered. Measurements of the object put it between the size of a very small planet and a comet. Its orbit is nearly perpendicular to the plane created by the 9 inner planets and One trip around the sun has been calculated to take 612,190 yrs.


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