03 October 2018
Newly discovered far-flung object supports Planet X existence
... on the fringes of the Solar System, but their distance make them difficult to find. "These so-called Inner Oort Cloud objects like 2015 TG387, 2012 VP113, and Sedna are isolated from most of the Solar System...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
... nine new “extreme” TNOs, four new Neptune Trojans, several new objects with high inclinations and an Oort cloud comet named after its discoverers; C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein). “The DES catalog represents a significant increase...
May 2026
Focusing the world on planetary defence
... threat posed by asteroids. Many remain undetected, and some arrive unexpectedly. The largest – emerging from the Oort Cloud or the asteroid belt – represent dangers capable of uniting humanity under a common cause. Planetary defence must be central...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... orbit of Saturn disappeared. They were accreted by planets, ejected out of the Solar System, or incorporated into the Oort cloud of comets. Jupiter was the major cause of this purging…’ It is true that in these types of computational models very...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... comets are part of our solar system, Jan Oort and other astronomers in the last century recognised that...the case with, for example, Oort cloud comets (twice the terrestrial value), then we have to conclude that Oort cloud comets have brought, if any ...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... EKB but there are over a thousand Edgeworth- Kuiper Belt Objects (EKBOs) known by now. The Oort Cloud is a notionally spherical cloud of small bodies that orbit the Sun within interstellar space, at distances of a large fraction of a light year...
