I see ice in the Oort Cloud
The Oort Cloud surrounds our solar system like a shell. It is made of billions of icy bodies in orbit around the Sun. In this diagram, the orbits of the planets are shown in the center. Occasionally a passing star will disturb the orbit of one of the bodies and fling it into the inner part of the solar system. Then it becomes a "long-period comet." Most of the comets we see are "short-period comets" from the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies orbiting beyond the orbit of Neptune. |
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The Oort Cloud is many times greater in extent than the planetary region of the solar system. |
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The Oort Cloud's icy bodies surround the solar system. Orbits of all the planets in our solar system are within that very small area circled in red. |