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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Observational bias and the clustering of distant eccentric Kuiper belt objects · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1706.04175/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1706.04175/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Observational bias and the clustering of distant eccentric Kuiper belt objects — mentioned by verytrivial</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14898905</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1706.04175:14898905</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 09:09:02 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;And from Batygin and Brown&amp;#x27;s (font-mangled) website: &amp;quot;A recent paper[1] that Mike put together shows exactly the opposite to be true for the non-OSSOS dataset: observational bias cannot account for orbital clustering beyond 250AU.&amp;quot; I love this sort of debate. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.04175.pdf&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1706.04175/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>astro-ph.EP</category></item></channel></rss>
