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Opik-Oort Cloud

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Astronomical Object

The Resume

    Spherical Cloud
    The edge of the Solar System - extends from the edge of the planets to 3 light years from the Sun
    Source of long period comets
    Home of more than six trillion comets and icy objects
    Temperature is 4° Celsius above absolute zero
    Usually called the Oort cloud
    Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik theorized an orbiting cloud containing comets (1932)
    Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrick Oort theorized that the cloud would replenish lost and destroyed comets (1950)

Why Opik-Oort Cloud might be annoying:

    It is fucking cold! Very close to absolute zero.
    Approximate every quarter to half a billion years it collides with another star's Oort cloud and many comets are redistributed between them.
    Some of their comets take a million years to orbit the Sun.
    The Hale-Bopp comet caused three dozen nut jobs in Heaven's Gate to commit mass suicide (1997).
    It's entire density is believed to be equal to Jupiter, but no one is certain.

Why Opik-Oort Cloud might not be annoying:

    According to www.solarviews.com/eng/oort.htm, it is 'An immense spherical cloud surrounding the planetary system, extending approximately 3 light years, about 30 trillion kilometers from the Sun. This vast distance is considered the edge of the Sun's orb of physical, gravitational, or dynamical influence.'
    There is a theory that a brown dwarf star called Sol B, may reside in the cloud and thus account for some of the strangeness in Pluto.
    Comets at the outer core of the cloud are sometimes lost to other stars but newer foreign comets are attracted.
    Sedna is probably part of the cloud.
    The comets approach randomly in all directions.

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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 138 Votes: 28.99% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 10 Votes: 10.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 27 Votes: 51.85% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 51 Votes: 35.29% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 63 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 22 Votes: 40.91% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 52 Votes: 44.23% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 32 Votes: 34.38% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 109 Votes: 46.79% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 219 Votes: 40.64% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 168 Votes: 46.43% Annoying