Astrophysical: Oort cloud

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    Distant trans-Neptunian object candidates from NASA's TESS mission scrutinized: fainter than predicted or false positives?
    NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is performing a homogeneous survey of the sky from space in search of transiting exoplanets. The collected...
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    Oort cloud perturbations as a source of hyperbolic Earth impactors
    The observation of interstellar objects 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov suggests the existence of a larger population of smaller projectiles that impact our planet...
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    Spectroscopic and dynamical properties of comet C/2018 F4, likely a true average former member of the Oort cloud
    Context. The population of comets hosted by the Oort cloud is heterogeneous. Most studies in this area have focused on highly active objects, those with small...
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    Surface composition and dynamical evolution of two retrograde objects in the outer solar system: 2008 YB3 and 2005 VD
    Most of the objects in the trans-Neptunian belt (TNb) and related populations move in prograde orbits with low eccentricity and inclination. However, the list...