1. Another useless part of space
THE OORT CLOUD

2. WHAT IS THE OORT CLOUDS
 The Oort cloud is a cloud of debris that is in
our outer solar system.
 The cloud is mostly made up of small rock
and dust particles.
 It is also made up of large rocks that are from
debris in the cloud clumping together.

3. HOW WAS THE OORT CLOUD
CREATED
 The Oort cloud was created by the left over
debris from the period of time when the
planets were being formed.
 The Oort cloud was created with the left over
dust/rock particles that never quite made a
planet.

4. FUN FACTS ABOUT THE OORT
CLOUD
 Saturn and Jupiter hold the Oort cloud
together.
 The Oort cloud gets most of its light from
another star, not the sun.
 If the Oort cloud was clumped together it
would be about the size of Jupiter and Saturn
combined. The Oort cloud was discovered in
1950 by Jan Oort.

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6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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 Hamilton, Calvin. "Ort Cloud." Views of the Solar System .
Rosanna L. Hamilton, 1999. Web. April 27, 2012.
<http://www.solarviews.com/eng/oort.htm>.
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