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Introduction1
Where Does the Solar System End? (NASA Space Place)
NASA Space Place (YouTube Channel)
Encyclopedia
Oort cloud, named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is a theoretical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from 50,000 to 200,000 AU (0.8 to 3.2 ly). It is divided into two regions: a disc-shaped inner Oort cloud (or Hills cloud) and a spherical outer Oort cloud. Both regions lie beyond the heliosphere and in interstellar space. The Kuiper belt and the scattered disc, the other two reservoirs of trans-Neptunian objects, are less than one thousandth as far from the Sun as the Oort cloud. — Wikipedia
Oort Cloud (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Oort Cloud (COSMOS: The SAO Encyclopedia of Astronomy)
Oort Cloud (Eric Weisstein’s World of Astronomy, Wolfram Research)
Oort Cloud (Wolfram Alpha)
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Preservation
History
The Man Who Knew Comets (Adam Frank, NPR)
Library
Subject: Oort Cloud (Open Library)
Subject: Oort Cloud (WorldCat)
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Participation
Education
The Oort Cloud (Crash Course Astronomy, YouTube Video)
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Community
News
Oort Cloud (Nova Research Highlights, American Astronomical Society)
Oort Cloud (EurekaAlert, AAAS)
Oort Cloud (JSTOR)
Oort Cloud (Science Daily)
Oort Cloud (Phys.org)
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Our Neighborhood
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Asteroid Belt Ceres, Vesta
Jovian Planet Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Trans-Neptunian Object
Kuiper Belt Pluto, Haumea, Makemake
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Oort Cloud Etc. Scholz’s Star
Small Body Comet, Centaur, Asteroid
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