KUIPER BELT & OORT CLOUD
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Kuiper-Oort
http://www.tased.edu.au/nineplanets/kboc.html
) of perhaps a trillion (1e12) or more comets orbit the Sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto from about 30,000 AU to a light-year or more. This is the source of the long-period | |
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Where do comets come from? (Kuiper Belt)
http://www.windows.umich.edu/comets/Kuiper_belt.html
The Kuiper Belt is named after Gerard Kuiper who suggested its existence in 1951. Kuiper suggested that some comets may originate in a region closer to the solar system than | |
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Oort Cloud Communications
http://www.oort.com/
The giant cometary sphere surrounding the solar system is named the Oort cloud, after Jan Oort who postulated its existence in 1950. Comets arrive in the solar system from all | |
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Kuiper Belt Movie
http://astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/garyb/WWW/KBO/
The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region of the Solar System beyond Neptune, 30 to 100 AU away from the Sun. It is believed that short-period comets such as Halley's Comet begin as | |
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Kuiper Belt
http://www.maa.mhn.de/Comet/kuiper_belt.html
Discovery Image of First Kuiper Object (1992 QB1) Kuiper Belt History of Kuiper Objects List of Kuiper Objects David Jewitt, a co-discoverer of many of the Kuiper Belt objects, has created an excellent WWW site entitled the Kuiper Belt Home Page. | |
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King of the Kuiper Belt
http://helios.augustana.edu/astronomy/1996tl66.html
(10K gif) The breakaway object 1996 TL 66 has an orbit much larger than those of other known members of the Kuiper Belt (green/dark blue band) and the outer planets (light blue). Courtesy Jane Luu. Planetesimal Beyond Neptune - King of the Kuiper... | |
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Comets, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud
http://www-geo.phys.ualberta.ca/%7Edoug/G221/SecI/oort.html
Comets, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud In 1950 Jan Oort noticed that 1.no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, 2.there is a strong tendency for aphelia of long period comet orbits to lie at. | |
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The Kuiper Belt
http://www.gl.umbc.edu/%7Egwilson/kuiper.html
The Kuiper Belt The Kuiper Belt is a region of space along the ecliptic outside the orbit of Neptune. It contains countless comets and "super comets" or planetesimals. It's existance was predicted in 1951 by Gerald Kuiper, for whom the belt was... | |
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The Oort cloud and long period comets
http://ea.bemidji.msus.edu/truedson/astro/ch12b/tsld007.htm
The Oort cloud and long period comets The significant number of long period comets (> 1000 years) and non-periodic comets led Jan Oort to speculate in 1950 that a cloud of objects surrounds the Solar System. This cloud is called the Oort cloud and.. | |
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Oort Cloud Oort Cloud Oort Cloud Oort Cloud Oort Cloud
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/oort.html
The Oort Cloud The Oort Cloud - Long Period Comets The orbits of comets exhibit a wide range of sizes, inclinations and eccentricities. In the past, it was convenient to divide the comets into two groups based on their orbital period. Long-Period... | |
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Comet Reservoirs
http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/Academics/Astr221/Lect36/reserv.html
Comet Reservoirs The Oort Cloud Based on the orbits of long period comets, in 1950 Jan Oort proposed that a distance, spherical distribution of cometary nuclei surrounding the solar system. Why distant? Why spherical? Distance: 3,000 - 100,000 AU . | |
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Kuiper-Oort
http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/teach/virtrips/nineplanets/kboc.html
The Kuiper Belt and The Oort Cloud Facts Careful orbital calculations done in 1950 by Jan Oort indicate that a huge "cloud" (now called the Oort Cloud) of perhaps a trillion (1e12) comets orbit the Sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto from about 30... | |
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New Exotic Ices
http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/dx/archives/planets/comets/comets3.html
New Exotic Ices Contact: Diane Farrar (415) 604-9000 (office) Aug. 5, 1994 Mountain View, Calif. -- Slight temperature differences in the two comet-forming regions of the solar system cause the water-ice largely comprising comets to form in... | |
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Comets in Space
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970525.html
Ask a High-Energy Astronomer The Question This question is about comets in space. How can ice, which is a form of water and which has a finite vapor pressure, exist in the near vacuum of space? The Answer Comets are usually in the outermost regions. | |
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Asteroids photos and animation from Astronomy In Your Face
http://www.sorgeweb.com/astronomy/solar_system/comet_asteroid/asteroid.htm
Multimedia Calendar News Comments Downloads Links Click on the photo for a larger version The majority of asteroids are contained within a main belt that exists between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, roughly 2-4 AU form the Sun. An AU, or... | |
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Comet Facts
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/%7Eweaver/nova/comet-facts.html
Comet Facts Where Do Comets Come From? COMETS are members of our Solar System. But unlike the Earth and other planets, which always stay at approximately the same distance from the Sun, most comets are great travelers that spend most of their time.. | |
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Comets
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/planetarium/solarsystem/comets2.html
Related Pages: Comet Hyakutake Comet Hale-Bopp Asteroids Meteors Craters Comets Comets can be described as 'dirty snowballs'. They consist of mainly ice, metals, rock and gases. Many reside at the edge of the Solar System, nearly one light-year... | |
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http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/%7Ejewitt/comet.html
Comet Home This page and its links are dedicated to an overview of the comets Nucleus Mantle Interior Coma Tail Origin Oort Cloud Kuiper Belt The comets are ice-rich bodies that become prominent when heat from the sun causes their trapped volatiles. | |
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