Oort Cloud Formation and Dynamics
Abstract
The Oort cloud is the primary source of the long-period comets. We describe what is known about the population and mass of the Oort cloud, including the hypothetical inner Oort cloud; outline dynamical processes in the cloud; and summarize new simulations of the formation of the cloud.
- Publication:
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Star Formation in the Interstellar Medium: In Honor of David Hollenbach
- Pub Date:
- December 2004
- Bibcode:
- 2004ASPC..323..371D