Not exact matches
But as they pass closer and closer to Jupiter, the planet can
fling them
out of the solar system entirely or jostle their
orbits into smaller loops.
But interactions with the newly formed giant planets ejected many
of those comets into interstellar space,
flung others
out into what would become the Oort Cloud, and knocked some into elongated, somewhat shorter
orbits in what is known as the scattered disk.
Whereas NASA's Kepler Space Telescope seeks
out the transits
of exoplanets across the face
of their stars, microlensing can detect entire star systems with exoplanets in far -
flung orbits, but this can only be done with confirmation from Hubble.
The EDDE could then either
fling the garbage back to Earth to land in the oceans, or push the objects into a closer
orbit, which would keep them
out of the way
of current satellites until they decay and fall back to Earth.