S C I E N C E ’ S C O M PA S S of the GalaxyYet it was not until the early 1980s that Oort’s picture, in which random stellar perturbations feed new long-period comets into the inner solar system, was overturn

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• Comets
• Oort cloud
• Kuiper belt
• Asteroid
• Jupiter
• Minor planet
• Kreutz Sungrazers
• Damocloid asteroid
• Jupiter Barrier
• Solar System
• Astronomy
• Planetary science