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Space Sciences Oort Cloud The Oort cloud is a vast swarm of some 2 trillion comets orbiting our star in the...the planets are confined to a flattened disk in the solar system, the Oort cloud forms a spherical shell centered on the Sun, which gradually flattens... Read more

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A Dictionary of Astronomy Oort Cloud A roughly spherical halo of comet nuclei...elliptical orbits at all inclinations. The Oort Cloud remains a theoretical concept, since we...extending inwards to join the Kuiper Belt . Oort Cloud comets are affected by the gravitational... Read more

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	Possible visitor from Oort cloud. (Comet Wilson) Magazine article from: Science News; 9/20/1986; ; 289 words ; Possible visitor from the Oort cloud Cometary orbits are usually either...Wilson may be a fresh visitor from the Oort cloud, a collection of cometary material...If it is a fresh visitor from the Oort cloud, it may fizzle as Comet Kohoutek... Read more
	Icy rock takes long way home: cometlike body traveling back to inner Oort Cloud.(Atom & Cosmos)(2006 SQ372)(Brief article) Magazine article from: Science News; 9/13/2008; ; 244 words ; ...makes return trips home to the remote Oort Cloud. This cloud is a proposed reservoir...the, up-until-now, unobserved inner Oort Cloud, says codiscoverer Nathan Kaib of...potential to tell us what the entire Oort Cloud looks like ... as well as provide... Read more
	Another struggle to see beyond the Oort Cloud.(VARIETY)(Al Sicherman) Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...represent), Sedna is rather like the Oort Cloud (named for Dutch astronomer Jan Oort...be the first known object in the Oort Cloud. None of this might matter much now...head: Both my parents are from the Oort Cloud. Obnoxious children Nos. 1 and 2... Read more
	The Bee Side: I've looked at clouds from both sides now.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Pensions Management; 12/1/2002; 311 words ; ...honest, I'm a bit worried about the Oort cloud at the moment. I've been worried...famous scientists, but in English. The Oort cloud has started playing up a bit in my...a free firework display, but the Oort cloud is full of millions of big to massive... Read more
	Cold cloud may contain unseen solar dust. Magazine article from: Science News; 10/15/1988; ; 382 words ; Cold cloud may contain unseen solar dust...dust actually lies in an unseen cloud encircling the solar system...That dust might exist within a cloud of comet nuclei that Dutch astronomer Jan H. Oort in 1950 predicted circles the...focused radiation, while a closer cloud would yield a diffuse ... Read more
	Cloud Effects on the Meridional Atmospheric Energy Budget Estimated from Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Data Magazine article from: Journal of Climate; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...cooling) in polar regions. The meridional gradient of the cloud effect between midlatitude and polar regions exists even when uncertainties in the cloud effect on the surface enthalpy flux and in the modeled...here that the meridional and vertical gradients of the cloud effect increase the rate of ... Read more
	Advances in understanding clouds from ISCCP Magazine article from: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...height, available from surface observations, to include cloud-top temperature and pressure (or height) and cloud optical thickness and to extend the range of observed cloud variations from diurnal and mesoscale to multiyear and global scales. The ISCCP cloud datasets are now being used to ... Read more
	Interannual variability of cloud forcing and meridional energy transport for the Northern Hemisphere winter from 1984 to 1990 Magazine article from: Journal of Climate; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...2^ over the study period. Interannual variations of net cloud forcing vary by less than 5%, with a decrease of cloud cooling during the El Nino and an increase during the La...key aspect of this study is the concurrent analysis of cloud type and amount information from the International Satellite ... Read more
	Clouds of comets waiting on edges of solar system Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/2/2003; ; 509 words ; ...on where it started its journey. Oort Cloud or Kuiper Belt? Those seem to be...astronomer Jan Oort in 1950. The Oort Cloud, containing billions or trillions...more than 400 billion miles out, the Oort Cloud is a vast comet prairie that may... Read more
	Precipitation and Cloud Structure in Midlatitude Cyclones Magazine article from: Journal of Climate; 1/15/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...distribution functions (PDFs) of rain rate, cloud type and cover, cloud-top temperature, surface wind velocity...conveyor belt model. Systemwide high cloud fraction (tops above 440 hPa) increases...energy transfer in the midlatitudes (Oort 1971; Trenberth and Stepaniak 2003...within) that seeks to ... Read more

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