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Where do comets come from?
Long period comets:  The Oort Cloud
•Most (original) orbits have aphelions of  >1000 AU
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•Need ~6 trillion comets out there to produce number seen in here
•Total mass of 38 MEarth
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•Passing stars deflect comets in from the cloud
The New Solar System,  Beatty et al.
¼ to 1 parsec