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What theory suggested that comets originate in the Oort cloud and then travel in long elliptical orbits around the Sun?
Jan Hendrik Oort suggested that comets come from the Oort Cloud. This is sometimes called the Oort Hypothesis.
Where is a comet located?
Comets are believed to have originated from asteroids in a sort of 'cloud', called the 'Oort Cloud'. It is thought all comets come from the Oort Cloud, which is a cloud of asteroids beyond the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune. When one asteroid is knocked off from its orbit from the Oort Cloud, it makes really long trips around the Sun, which is why it becomes a comet. All of the asteroids in the Oort Cloud have some type of ice on them, since they are so far away from the sun that everything in the Oort Cloud seems to freeze.
Are most comets found in either Oort cloud or the asteroid belt?
Rocky asteroids. Icy comets often live in and come from the Kuiper Belt.
How often do comets from the oort cloud come to earth?
every 5-10 years.
Where do Comets with extremely elliptical orbits like comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp come from?
The Oort Cloud
What is the name of the celestial body thought to have come from the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud?
The correct answer is comet!
Is Saturn part of the Oort cloud?
No. The Oort cloud is way beyond the orbit of Saturn. It's where many of the comets come from.
Where do meteroids come from?
The Oort Cloud or the Asteroid Belt.
What space objects come from the oort cloud?
Comets.
What theory suggested that comets originate in the Oort cloud and then travel in long elliptical orbits around the Sun?
Jan Hendrik Oort suggested that comets come from the Oort Cloud. This is sometimes called the Oort Hypothesis.
How were comets found?
Comets come from the Oort cloud and the Kupier Belt
Where is a comet located?
Comets are believed to have originated from asteroids in a sort of 'cloud', called the 'Oort Cloud'. It is thought all comets come from the Oort Cloud, which is a cloud of asteroids beyond the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune. When one asteroid is knocked off from its orbit from the Oort Cloud, it makes really long trips around the Sun, which is why it becomes a comet. All of the asteroids in the Oort Cloud have some type of ice on them, since they are so far away from the sun that everything in the Oort Cloud seems to freeze.
Are most comets found in either Oort cloud or the asteroid belt?
Rocky asteroids. Icy comets often live in and come from the Kuiper Belt.
What celiestial body do comets orbit?
Any object with greater mass than another can cause the lesser object to orbit it. Most of our comets come from the Oort Cloud, beyond Pluto, and they orbit our Sun.
How often do comets from the oort cloud come to earth?
every 5-10 years.
Oort cloud comets are so far from the Sun that gravity of neighboring stars can alter their orbits?
True. We think; the Oort Cloud is a hypothesis, because so far we are unable to detect small dark objects so far from the Earth. We have never actually detected anything in the Oort Cloud. But long-period comets come from SOMEWHERE, and Jan Oort's idea of a "cloud" of primitive objects makes sense.
What celestial (space)object can a meteoroid come from?
The space rock is the celestial space object that a meteoroid comes from.
