Category:Oort cloud
Comets that spend most of their time in the Oort cloud are members of the Oort cloud. Numerous such comets have been observed when close to the Sun. The closer an object is to the Sun the faster it needs to move to maintain the orbit. Objects move slowest when furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and fastest when closest to the Sun (perihelion) and this is why Oort cloud comets spend most of their time in the Oort cloud. While in the Oort cloud these objects are subject to numerous small perturbations that can make notable changes to the orbital period and/or make the object unbound/bound.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "Oort cloud"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
C
- C/1999 F1 (Catalina)
- Comet McNaught
- C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
- C/2010 U3 (Boattini)
- C/2011 J2 (LINEAR)
- C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)
- C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein)
- C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
- C/2021 T4 (Lemmon)
- C/2012 K1 (PanSTARRS)
- C/2013 US10 (Catalina)
- C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden)
- C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS)
- C/2020 F8 (SWAN)
- C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS)