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  • The Oort constants (discovered by Jan Oort) A {\displaystyle A} and B {\displaystyle B} are empirically derived parameters that characterize the local...
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    occupied by the planets." The Oort cloud, the Oort constants, and the asteroid 1691 Oort were all named after him. Oort was born in Franeker, a small...
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    The Oort cloud (/ɔːrt, ʊərt/), sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is theorized to be a vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances...
    56 KB (6,184 words) - 15:09, 28 June 2024
  • Sedna (oort cloud object)
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    astronomers to informally refer to it as the first known member of the inner Oort cloud. The dwarf planet is also the prototype of a new orbital class of objects...
    88 KB (8,311 words) - 23:17, 30 June 2024
  • refuelling Onsager reciprocal relations Onset of deconfinement Oops-Leon Oort constants Opacity (optics) Opalescence Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor...
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    interstellar space. The outermost region of the Solar System is the theorized Oort cloud, the source for long-period comets, extending to a radius of 2,000–200...
    219 KB (21,636 words) - 14:44, 27 June 2024
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    the Galaxy. These discoveries were published in 1940 and were noted by Jan Oort who knew that significant advances could be made in astronomy if there were...
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    as 100 AU from the Sun. The Kuiper belt is distinct from the hypothesized Oort cloud, which is believed to be a thousand times more distant and mostly spherical...
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    p. 656, ISBN 978-0-935702-68-2 Basic Constants, Sierra College Marc Sauvage, Table of astronomical constants, archived from the original on 11 December...
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    1951. Using the radio telescope at the Kootwijk Observatory, Muller and Oort reported the detection of the hydrogen emission line in May of that same...
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  • orbits during the giant planet migration are captured in the Oort cloud. The outer Oort cloud, semi-major axes greater than 20,000 AU, forms quickly as...
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    Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty. NIST. Retrieved 23 August 2011. "CODATA Value: proton mass". The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and...
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    Schweiz. Retrieved 20 May 2016. Kruit, Pieter C. van der (2019). Jan Hendrik Oort: Master of the Galactic System. Springer. p. 639. ISBN 978-3-030-17801-7...
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