Whitmire notes that Sedna, thought by some to be an inner Oort Cloud object, may have also been perturbed by Tyche, since Sedna has an orbit well beyond that of Neptune.

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Cheng says the comet is likely making its first visit to the inner solar system from the Oort cloud, a reservoir of hundreds of millions of comets encircling our solar system at a distance of about a light year.

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