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Old 05-December-2007, 05:30 PM
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Right, the Oort cloud is just theoretical. That's where the long period comets seem to come from. I would assume that they're physically similar to Kuiper belt objects, since the long period comets are similar to other comets. The differences would probably be very interesting to astronomers, though.
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