Übersetzung für 'Oort cloud' von Englisch nach Deutsch

Oort cloud

Oort'sche Wolke {f}astron.

Oortsche Wolke {f} [auch: Oort'sche Wolke]astron.

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Öpik-Oort cloud

Öpik-Oort-Wolke {f}astron.

• In the Solar System, ice is abundant and occurs naturally from as close to the Sun as Mercury to as far away as the Oort cloud objects.
• Two papers published in 1984 proposed the impactor to be a comet originating from the Oort cloud, and it was proposed in 1992 that tidal disruption of comets could potentially increase impact rates.
• At the time of the writing, the name Nemesis was given to a hypothetical companion to Earth's Sun that could provide a mechanism for periodic disturbances of comets in the Oort cloud, which would then fall inwards causing mass extinctions.
• Young Earth Creationists reject the existence of the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud.
• Long-period comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud, a spherical cloud of icy bodies extending from outside the Kuiper belt to halfway to the nearest star.

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• The galactic tide's effects on the Solar System's Oort cloud are believed to cause 90 percent of long-period comets.
• The existence of planets beyond Neptune, ranging from less than an Earth mass (Sub-Earth) up to a brown dwarf has been often postulated for different theoretical reasons to explain several observed or speculated features of the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud.
• The outer limit of the Oort cloud defines the cosmographic boundary of the Solar System and the extent of the Sun's Hill sphere.