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ChaCha has the answer to this question: What is the name of the spherical cloud of comets said to encircle our solar system beyond Pluto Answer: An immense spherical cloud surrounding the planetary system and ext... ... An immense spherical cloud surrounding the planetary system and extending approximately 3 light years,
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Solar System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System
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There have been several suggested resolutions to this problem, the most popular and successful being that of the late Dutch astronomer Jan Oort.2 Oort proposed a large spherical cloud of comet nuclei that formed early in the history of the Solar System. ... This means that all comets are members of the Solar System,
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www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v11/i3/comets.asp
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No longer is Pluto a lonely outpost in an otherwise empty frontier. ... But our solar system doesn’t end there. Far beyond the Kuiper belt lies the mysterious Oort cloud, a spherical shell that stretches to the boundaries of interstellar space and blasts its own dark ice balls toward the sun. Trillions more bodies may...
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discovermagazine.com/2004/nov/cover/article_print
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) said that the definition for a planet is now officially known as "a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium ... Oort Cloud ... Beyond Our Solar System...
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solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/index.cfm
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The IAU said in a statement that the definition for a planet is now officially known as "a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, ... Many of the key questions about Pluto, Charon, and the outer fringes of our solar system await close-up observations by a robotic space flight mission. ... Beyond Our Solar System...
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solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Dwarf&D...
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Sedna is 2.5 billion miles beyond Pluto. ... The Oort Cloud ... The first recognized Kuiper Belt Objects were not discovered until the early 1990s. Along with the roughly 10,000 small asteroids and comets counted across the Solar System to date, Pluto is one among dozens of so-called Trans-Neptunian Objects (NTOs).
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www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/KuiperBelt/Quaoar.html
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Tilt to the solar-system plane; 44 degrees ... • An even more complex and extensive belt (Kuiper Belt) of minor bodies — including Pluto and the new body, now called 2003 UB313. These largely icy objects stretch out beyond Neptune's orbit and culminate in a large, roughly spherical cloud of icy comets.
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www.usatoday.com/community/utils/idmap/13026997.story
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An object at a very large distance is said to have zero potential energy, and the potential energy ... Oort Cloud-; A spherical cloud of comets surrounding the outer reaches of the solar system (well beyond the orbit of Pluto at about 50,000 astronomical units), where an estimated 1 trillion cometary bodies are located.
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