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This 6-page paper discusses the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt, and the objects contained in these two regions of the solar system. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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as a massive comet or meteor, slamming into the Earth and causing mass destruction in its wake. Many times, this comet, or meteor is described as coming from far away,
from a somewhat exotic, and guttural-sounding region known as the Oort Cloud. The premise is that these long-hidden comets are so far out on the fringes of space, that they
only come around every few thousand years or so, and without fail, have Earth in their targets. Though the Oort Cloud does
exist, it doesnt spew out comets destined to destroy Earth. Rather, Dutch astronomists Jan Oort and Gerard Kuiper theorized that icy objects exist beyond Neptunes orbit and that the majority
of comets actually come from a large, icy cloud on the distant reaches of our solar system, respectively (Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud). The fact that these two astronomers postulated
these theories in a time before the first rockets traveled into space speaks volumes for their contributions to astronomy. Though objects in the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt behave in
a different fashion (the Oort Cloud rings the solar system, while the Kuiper Belt is just beyond Neptune), both produce comets, and both are thought to be remnants of the
solar systems formation, approximately 4.6 billion years ago (Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud). However, few, if any, of the comets coming from these two different areas have "Destination Earth" stamped
on them. The Oort Cloud In 1950, Jan Oort, a Dutch astronomer, suggested that many comets originate in a very distant and spherical
shell of icy bodies surrounding our solar system (Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud). That area of objects, occupying approximately 5,000 to 100,000 astronomical units, is today known as the Oort
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