Bizarre orbits of minor planets beyond Neptune - Ann Marie Madigan(SETI Talk)

The major planets in our solar system are on nearly circular orbits in a well-defined disk plane. The minor planets, however, take very different paths around the sun. Many minor planets are on orbits that tilt 30 degrees or more out of this disk plane; bizarrely, as Dr. Madgian will describe in the talk, they all tilt the same way! Theories for their unusual orbits include the presence of an undetected super-Earth or ’Planet X’ at hundreds of AU, or an encounter with a passing star which deposited its ow