Does the Oort cloud have any large holes in it and if not does this ...
Oct 25, 2023 · The Oort cloud (assuming it exists) is made up of many small objects in orbits in a wide range of orientation, distance, and eccentricity. What that means is the orbital period of any given …
What's the reason for the hollow region in Oort cloud?
Oct 16, 2023 · The Oort cloud itself is thought to be mainly populated with objects that formed in the inner Solar System, where the protostellar disc was dense. Small asteroids that are close to the giant …
What are the relative distances between objects in the Oort cloud?
Nov 12, 2024 · The Oort Cloud has many more objects than the main asteroid belt, some trillion objects larger than a kilometer, but it also occupies a much larger volume of space from 5,000 AU to beyond …
Do all stars have an Oort cloud or is it a rare occurence?
Oct 18, 2014 · Oort-cloud objects are 2,000 - 50,000 (or more) AU away-- so these objects, to us in the same solar system, have an apparent magnitude much fainter than 11. The point of that poorly …
Why the blank wedges in this very early 21 cm map of the Milky Way ...
Jan Oort was a pioneer in radio astronomy. Wikipedia says: It has been written that “Oort was probably the first astronomer to realize the importance” of radio astronomy. “In the days before radio
planet - Could there be mini systems within our solar system, beyond ...
Oct 12, 2024 · The Oort Cloud is poorly understood and hypothesized to go up to 2000 AU to 3 ly away, at which point other stars start pulling on Oort Cloud bodies and the question of what is "within our …
Outer Limit of Oort Cloud - Astronomy Stack Exchange
Mar 10, 2023 · Thus, if the mass within the Sun's orbit around the center of the galaxy is between ten billion (10,000,000,000) and one hundred fifty billion (150,000,000,000) times the mass of the Sun, …
orbit - Does Halley's Comet travel past the outer bounds of the Oort ...
Oct 1, 2020 · The Oort cloud generally is believed to be the reservoir for comets. Small perturbations there might scatter single objects into the inner solar system which then appear here as new comet - …
Does the Oort Cloud lose mass with time? - Astronomy Stack Exchange
Oct 5, 2023 · The Oort cloud objects are only very loosely bound to the Sun. That is, their total energy (kinetic plus gravitational potential) is only just negative. That means you only need a slightly positive …
Where does the Solar System end? - Astronomy Stack Exchange
Oct 4, 2014 · The planets in our Solar System, however, aren't even close to that far away from the Sun. Where does our Solar System end? Is the edge considered to be the orbit of Neptune, the Kuiper …