The Oort Cloud: The Solar System's Shell
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What lies at the edge of the Solar System? Far beyond the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, deep into interstellar space, we find a vast, thick shell of icy space debris. We have never seen it directly, but we know it exists- because it is the source of the most distant comets that we see entering the Solar System. So why is it there? Today we'll find out.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00: Introduction
02:01: The Oort Cloud
05:18: The Scale of the Cloud
06:47: Formation of the Oort Cloud
09:33: The Source of All Comets
13:17: The Hills Cloud
14:40: Sedna
16:12: The Outer Oort Cloud
17:13: Siding Spring, Hale Bopp, Lovejoy
19:20: Future Missions to the Oort Cloud
21:46: Extra-solar Oort Clouds