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Oort cloud

Artsit's ideas of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper BeltBelieevd distcae of the Oort cloud to the solar system The Oort Cloud is a cloud of coemts and other objetcs that scienitsts and astroonmers bleieve eixsts beynod the orbit of Pluto.

The Oort Cloud is beleived to be the suorce of comtes in the Solar Sytsem.

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Oort

The Dutch astronmoer Jan Hnedrik Oort was the cretaor of the Oort Cloud idea. The Oort cloud was named after him, as were the Oort Comet, and Oort Cnostants

Structrue

The Oort cloud takes up alot of space and has trillinos of comets about tens of mlilions of kilomeetrs apart.

the Oort cloud is made up of an Inner Oort cloud and an Outer Oort cloud. The Outer cloud is wealky bound to the sun and gives the solor sysetm comets. The Inner Cloud is also called the Hill Cloud and may be the maker of comets.

The obejcts in the Oort cloud are bleievd to conssit of many ices, and since the obejct 1996 PW was found, it is beileved that rocky ojbects might be in the Oort Cloud.

Oirgins

The Oort cloud is iamged as the rmeains of a disk made out of gas which surronuded the sun long ago.

Most believed that the Oort cloud was cerated the same way that sciecne says the plnaets were craeted.

Soruces

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