马泰赛和惠特迈尔分析了来自奥尔特星云的彗星轨道后，发现其中20%的彗星不是像你以为的来自于随机方向，而是来自于天空的某个狭窄区域。

When Matese and Whitmire analyzed the orbits of these Oort Cloud comets, about 20% of them seemed to come not from the random directions you'd expect, but from a narrower section of sky.

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路易斯安那大学拉斐特分校的天文学家约翰·马泰塞和丹尼尔·惠特迈尔曾多次发表声明表示，基于长周期彗星运行轨道的不规则性，他们发现了该天体存在的证据。

Astronomers John Matese and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette repeatedly claimed to have evidence of its existence based on irregularities among long-period comets.

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某些彗星似乎以某个倾斜角度向着太阳运行，从上个世纪九十年代末期开始，马泰赛和他的同事丹。惠特·迈尔一直就这点争论不休。

The argument Matese and his colleague Dan Whitmire have been making since the late 1990s is that some comets seem to be moving in toward the Sun from a skewed direction.

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