Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

Kuiper Belt they all stared in horror."Anything with a large enough relative motion is likely tobe a halo object," Heymon said. Thom had attached captionsto the labels on the impactors and Heymon was scrolling thruthem. The captions gave their mass, target and time tilimpact. All these out here were many years out."We've only seen the beginning!" Kelvin wailed. Thecaptain really hadn't been himself since news of the warreached them and Thom was distressed to see him this way.He wondered if he should ask the bishop to try and get himmore support."Because of the velocity difference, any body headed forSol is going to be a halo object," Elmore said. He turned toThom, "All the bodies you've studied so far have been coorbitalhave they not?""They're all main population," Thom admitted. They werecoming straight up the Orion Arm on the way home,everything, snowflakes and stars included, was orbiting thegalaxy in this direction, Sol was eleven light years ahead of61 Cygni in the galactic orbit."You see what I'm getting at," Elmore said, "If you hadone from a halo object, we could tell if the halo objects havethis same effect you've been studying.""Most of the bodies with large relative motions are notundergoing course corrections," Thom said.Heymon chimed in with, "There's some dispute about thevalidity of Darryl's work. These objects are still a hundred146