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Definition: Oort Cloud |
Oort CloudNoun1. (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Geography | Vast swarm of icy bodies surrounding the Solar System. Source: European Union. (references) |
Space | A large number of comets theorized to orbit the sun in the neighborhood of 50,000 AU. (references) |
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In 1932 Ernst Öpik, an Estonian astronomer, proposed that comets originate in an orbiting cloud situated at the outermost edge of the solar system. In 1950 the idea was revived and proposed by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort to explain an apparent contradiction: comets are destroyed by several passes through the inner solar system, yet if the comets we observe had existed since the origin of the solar system, all would have been destroyed by now. According to the theory, the Oort cloud contains millions of comet nuclei, which are stable because the sun's radiation is weak at their distance. The cloud provides a continual supply of new comets, replacing those that are destroyed.
The Oort cloud is a remnant of the original nebula that collapsed to form the sun and planets five billion years ago, and is loosely bound to the solar system. It is thought that other stars are likely to possess Oort clouds of their own, and that the outer edges of two nearby stars' Oort clouds may sometimes overlap, causing the occasional intrusion of a comet into the inner solar system.
Sun - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Asteroids - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune - Pluto - Comets - Kuiper belt - Oort cloud
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Crosswords: Oort Cloud |
| English words defined with "Oort cloud": Jan Hendrix Oort ♦ Oort. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "Oort cloud"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | Oortwolk. (various references) | ||||
French | nuage d'Oort. (various references) | ||||
Italian | nube d'Oort. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oortay oudclay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-l-o-o-o-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: outdoor. | |
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-4 letters: cloot, cloud, clour, clout, color, could, court, dolor, drool, duroc, odour, outdo. | |
-5 letters: clod, clot, cold, colt, cool, coot, cord, crud, cult, curd, curl, curt, dolt, door, dour, duct, duro, loco, loot, lord, loud, lour, lout, odor, ordo, rood, root, rotl, roto, rout, told, tolu, tool, torc, toro. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-l-o-o-o-r-t-u" | |
+5 letters: glucocorticoid. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 6F 72 74 43 6C 6F 75 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01101111 01110010 01110100 00100000 01000011 01101100 01101111 01110101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O o r t   C l o u d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 006F 0072 0074 0043 006C 006F 0075 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4981848623778818770 |
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