Oort Cloud

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2183w&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2183. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Comets

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The Oort cloud is a huge, spherical swarm of some 1012-1013 comets
surrounding the solar system and extending roughly halfway to the
nearest stars. The cloud is named for the Dutch astronomer JAN OORT who
first suggested its existence in 1950 in order to explain the orbits of
the observed LONG-PERIOD (LP) COMETS....

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