What Evidence Led Astronomers to Conclude That the Oort Cloud

question 87

Multiple Choice

What evidence led astronomers to conclude that the Oort cloud is a spherical distribution of comets?

• A)direct observation of comets orbiting the sun in the Oort cloud
• B)the observation that comets enter the solar system from random directions
• C)Astronomers did not draw that conclusion; the Oort cloud is shaped like a flat ring in the same plane as the planets.

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