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The inner Oort cloud is sometimes known as the Hills cloud, named for Jack G. Hills, who proposed its existence in 1981. [16] Models predict the inner cloud to be the much denser of the two, having tens or hundreds of times as many cometary nuclei as the outer cloud.
Artist's view of the theoretical Oort cloud, Hills cloud, and Kuiper belt (inset) In astronomy, the Hills cloud (also called the inner Oort cloud [1] and inner cloud [2]) is a theoretical vast circumstellar disc, interior to the Oort cloud, whose outer border would be located at around 20,000 to 30,000 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, and whose inner border, less well defined, is ...
Gliese 710 has the potential to perturb the Oort cloud in the outer Solar System, exerting enough force to send showers of comets into the inner Solar System for millions of years, triggering visibility of about ten naked-eye comets per year, [12] and possibly causing an impact event. According to Filip Berski and Piotr Dybczyński, this event ...
2012 VP 113 (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 System also contains: Comets. List of periodic comets; List of near-parabolic comets; Small objects, including: Meteoroids; Interplanetary dust. Helium focusing cone ...
Following the discovery of Leleākūhonua, Sheppard et al. concluded that it implies a population of about 2 million Inner Oort Cloud objects larger than 40 km, with a total mass in the range of 1 × 10 22 kg, about the mass of Pluto and several times the mass of the asteroid belt. [31]
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Comets are “big, snowy dirt balls,” that sometimes originate in the oort cloud, or a “reservoir of comets a quarter of the way to (the sun),” Cooke said.
The asteroid and comet belts orbit the Sun from the inner rocky planets into outer parts of the Solar System, interstellar space. [16] [17] [18] An astronomical unit, or AU, is the distance from Earth to the Sun, which is approximately 150 billion meters (93 million miles). [19] Small Solar System objects are classified by their orbits: [20] [21]