Not defending claim, per se, but as soon as Sedna was discovered (the first or nearly the first of the noted 'flock') there was speculation as to how it was perturbed into it's odd orbit.
I hadn't been following subsequent reports of so many more oddly oriented orbits in these distant critters, but while it might be 'OK' for one object to be a curiosity, when you get 6 of them with striking similarities in eccentricity, and similar orientation in 3D space, it invites study to figure out what is going on.
I was just pondering a big collision of a moon around a KBO possibly leading to such a configuration, but immediately, I realized while it might generate a similar 'flock', the original parent body of the satellite would be much larger, much brighter, much closer, much more resistant to disruption, and ALREADY discovered.
You see the flaw in my idea, the parent body doesn't exist. So I can appreciate many alternatives have been considered, and good old Occam is guiding speculation as to how we might get a configuration as has been discovered.
I hadn't been following subsequent reports of so many more oddly oriented orbits in these distant critters, but while it might be 'OK' for one object to be a curiosity, when you get 6 of them with striking similarities in eccentricity, and similar orientation in 3D space, it invites study to figure out what is going on.
I was just pondering a big collision of a moon around a KBO possibly leading to such a configuration, but immediately, I realized while it might generate a similar 'flock', the original parent body of the satellite would be much larger, much brighter, much closer, much more resistant to disruption, and ALREADY discovered.
You see the flaw in my idea, the parent body doesn't exist. So I can appreciate many alternatives have been considered, and good old Occam is guiding speculation as to how we might get a configuration as has been discovered.
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