protoplanetary disk

  • association with Oort cloud

    TITLE: Oort cloud
    ...existence and large mass are predicted by the theory of the origin of the solar system. The Oort cloud must have been created from icy planetesimals that originally accreted in the outer part of the protoplanetary disk and were then scattered far away by the gravity of the incipient giant planets. How far the Oort cloud extends into space is not known, although Marsden’s results suggest that it...