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768 words, approx. 3 pages
Oort Cloud The Oort cloud is a vast swarm of some 2 trillion comets orbiting our star in the most distant reaches of our solar system, extending from beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto out to 100,... Read more
361 words, approx. 2 pages
Oort Cloud In 1950, the Dutch Astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort noted several facts about the orbital parameters of the known comets.When Oort examined the population of LPCs (comets with orbital periods lo... Read more