Timeline for Oort cloud shape
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| Oct 25, 2023 at 23:16 | answer | added | ProfRob | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 15:20 | history | edited | Alchimista | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2018 at 8:49 | vote | accept | Alchimista | ||
| Feb 9, 2018 at 0:32 | answer | added | userLTK | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 15:48 | comment | added | Alchimista | Please @userLTK look at my previous comment | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 15:26 | comment | added | Alchimista | @userLTD yes please do it. Convey why a solid ball tends indeed to flatten to a disk and at least become oblate but not linked objects keep their paths. It will be more general and not only Oort related. Thanks | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 9:21 | comment | added | Jaideep Khare | This video may help you : Why is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat? | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 0:02 | comment | added | userLTK | Maybe I'll turn this into an answer (or someone else can if they like), but the relatively flat disk forms by collision. If there's insufficient material to generate enough collisions, the shape remains generally spherical or debris cloud shaped. It may be possible that there's some influence on the shape due to magnetism or possibly by large distant orbiting objects doing some shepherding, but the spherical shape is the simplest and likely best approximation. We've never actually seen or measured the Oort cloud so estimates of its shape should be taken with a grain of salt. | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 20:25 | history | edited | Phiteros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jan 21, 2018 at 18:19 | history | suggested | Jaideep Khare | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Oort Cloud, instead of Ort cloud.
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| Jan 21, 2018 at 12:48 | history | edited | Alchimista | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 21, 2018 at 12:44 | comment | added | Alchimista | Thank you @gerrit ! Indeed! But now I have to change Q :) | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 12:37 | comment | added | gerrit | Are you sure you are not confused with the Oort Cloud in your memory from the Cosmos episode? I think the Oort Cloud is believed to be spherical. | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 11:37 | history | asked | Alchimista | CC BY-SA 3.0 |