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    The Oort cloud (/ɔːrt, ʊərt/), sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is theorized to be a vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances...
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    the Hills cloud (also called the inner Oort cloud and inner cloud) is a theoretical vast circumstellar disc, interior to the Oort cloud, whose outer...
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    astronomers consider the sednoids to be Inner Oort Cloud (IOC) objects, though the inner Oort cloud, or Hills cloud, was originally predicted to lie beyond...
    25 KB (2,338 words) - 16:32, 29 July 2024
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    (possibly inner Oort cloud) Sedna, a dwarf planet (possibly inner Oort cloud) Oort cloud (hypothetical) Hills cloud/inner Oort cloud Outer Oort cloud The Solar...
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    astronomers to informally refer to it as the first known member of the inner Oort cloud. The dwarf planet is also the prototype of a new orbit class of objects...
    88 KB (8,325 words) - 20:38, 20 August 2024
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    ETNOs, but are still relatively close to Neptune. The sednoids or inner Oort cloud objects, with perihelia beyond 50–60 AU, are too far from Neptune to...
    220 KB (21,683 words) - 15:22, 19 August 2024
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    occupied by the planets." The Oort cloud, the Oort constants, and the asteroid 1691 Oort were all named after him. Oort was born in Franeker, a small...
    42 KB (5,627 words) - 14:41, 2 August 2024
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    further suggest a transitional space between the scattered disc and the inner Oort cloud, populated with "detached objects". The Kuiper belt is a relatively...
    38 KB (4,384 words) - 05:32, 23 July 2024
  • Chadwick A.; Rabinowitz, David L. (2004). "Discovery of a Candidate Inner Oort Cloud Planetoid" (PDF). Astrophysical Journal. 617 (1): 645–649. arXiv:astro-ph/0404456...
    41 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 19 August 2024
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    object ending up in the inner Oort cloud is about 2%, and speculates that many objects must have been thrown past the Oort cloud if one has entered a stable...
    179 KB (19,083 words) - 21:15, 17 August 2024
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    scattered ETNOs, but are still relatively close to Neptune. The sednoid or inner Oort cloud objects, with perihelia beyond 50–60 AU, are too far from Neptune to...
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    Oort cloud of 20,000–50,000 AU (0.32–0.79 ly), and a doughnut-shaped inner cloud, the Hills cloud, of 2,000–20,000 AU (0.03–0.32 ly). The outer cloud...
    144 KB (15,286 words) - 17:43, 17 July 2024
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    events including the Late Heavy Bombardment of the inner Solar System, the formation of the Oort cloud, and the existence of populations of small Solar...
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    trans-Neptunian objects (objects in the Kuiper belt, scattered disc or inner Oort cloud). For a complete list of minor planets in numerical order, see List...
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    Sheppard et al. concluded that it implies a population of about 2 million inner Oort cloud objects larger than 40 km (25 mi), with a combined total mass of 1×1022 kg...
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    Rabinowitz, David; Trujillo, Chad (2004). "Discovery of a Candidate Inner Oort Cloud Planetoid". Astrophysical Journal. 617 (1): 645–649. arXiv:astro-ph/0404456...
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    possible dwarf planets such as 90377 Sedna (possibly the first known inner Oort cloud object), 90482 Orcus, Eris (more massive than Pluto), Haumea, and Makemake...
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    Shannon (2009). "2006 SQ372: A Likely Long-Period Comet from the Inner Oort Cloud". The Astrophysical Journal. 695 (1): 268–275. arXiv:0901.1690. Bibcode:2009ApJ...
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  • approximately 1.3 Earth masses, are captured in the Oort cloud with roughly 60% in the inner cloud. Objects may also have been captured earlier and from...
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    heliopause, six and a half years to reach the Sun’s inner gravitational focus, with arrival at the inner Oort Cloud in no more than thirty years." "Such a mission...
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