Oort Cloud Theory: Origin and Trajectory of Comets

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The theory that suggests comets originate in the Oort cloud and then travel long elliptical orbits around the Sun is called the Oort cloud theory.

This theory was proposed by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort in 1950.

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