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The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud
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Description: The classical Kuiper belt of comets spreads from Neptune out 50 AU
from the Sun. Most of the estimated 200 million belt comets are believed
to orbit in or near the plane of the ecliptic. The spherical Oort cloud extends
from beyond the Kuiper belt.

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