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The Oort Cloud Target Name:   Oort Cloud Produced by:   Calvin J. Hamilton Copyright:  © 1999 by Calvin J. Hamilton Date Released:  23 October 1999 (Publisher Permission Request) Related Document Oort Cloud Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size oort.jpg JPEG 640 x 500 56K oort.jpg JPEG 1920 x 1500 524K oort.tif TIFF 1920 x 1500 2M This illustration depicts the immensity of the Oort cloud. The radius is approximately 30 trillion kilometers, the Sun being the center point. Trillions of icy objects travel this region, ancient relics of the primordial solar nebula from which the solar system was formed, and the source of future long-period comets to the inner solar system.

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