Oort Cloud
- Author
- J Aatish Rao
- Published
- Sun 04 Apr 2021
- Episode Link
- https://listen.hubhopper.com/episode/oort-cloud-1618332067/23668515
The Oort cloud, named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is a theoretical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 AU.
