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'Oumuamua

Greetings TychosElk! I just wanted to chat briefly about my edit on 'Oumuamua where I removed a note. This stems from a discussion on the talk page a couple of months ago here, where I proposed editing or removing that particular section. Unfortunately there was not a great deal of participation, but the only other person to chime in was in agreement that the note is problematic as currently written. After no further discussion, I thought it might be best to simply remove the note entirely, as the number 20,000 seems far too precise for something that isn't well-defined at all. Rather than just replace the note as you did, do you have an idea of how we might fix it? CThomas³ (talk) 22:24, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi CThomas3, I don't see anything "wrong" with the note. The 20,000 is admittedly pretty rough since the outer edge of the Oort cloud is not really well known; possibly replace to "will pass the outer edge of the Oort cloud in roughly 10,000 - 30,000 years" ? TychosElk (talk) 18:42, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

I agree with you, but I don't see anything terribly "right" about the note either. My issue is that it is ambiguous at best, and raises more questions than it answers at worst, especially given the lack of knowledge about the Oort cloud and the various definitions of what "the edge of the Solar system is". As I thought about how to improve it, I really couldn't come up with anything compelling, which is why I took it out. What you wrote would be better, but I don't see a good reason to keep what's there. CThomas³ (talk) 17:36, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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