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It's sort of amazing to me that the Sun can capture objects that far away. Like obviously even at that distance the Sun would be by far the closest massive thing, but it's hard to comprehend the effects of gravity being strong enough at that distance. From "Planet 9" the Sun probably wouldn't significantly stand out from all the other stars in the sky, yet you'd be orbiting it.


From 700 AU you would still be only 0.01 ly from the sun, or 400x closer to the sun than the second closest star.




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