Kuiper Belt And Oort Cloud
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Kuiper Belt
Photo by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
WHAT IS IT?
- Shaped like eclipse
- Icy chunks of varies substances
- Frozen water, ammonia, various hydrocarbons
- begins near orbit of Neptune ends beyond pluto
Photo by Gordana AM
FACTS
- 4.5 to 7.4 billion km from sun
- Over 70,000 objects
- Unaffected by neptune's gravitational effect
- Remain stable in their orbit
- named after US astronomer who discovered it
Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography
Pluto is the biggest object in the belt
Photo by margot.trudell
OORT CLOUD
Photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
WHAT IS IT?
- Massive spherical cloud
- Made of icy objects composed of ammonia, water, methane
- Begins at 2,000 or 5,000 AU and ends at 50,000 or 100,000 AU
- Surrounds the solar system
Photo by davedehetre
FACTS
- Jan Oort hypothesized it's existence in 1950
- Existence has not been proven through direct observation
- Named after astronomer Jan Oort
- Most comets originate from the Oort Cloud
- Encircles solar system
Photo by Jason A. Samfield
