Oortcloud

Oortcloud
Oort cloud (ôrt, ōrt) n.
A swarm of comets orbiting the sun at a distance of one to two light-years, proposed as a source of comets that pass near the sun.
  [After Jan Hendrix Oort (1900-1992), Dutch astronomer.]

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