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    greater. If it exists, the Hills cloud contains roughly 5 times as many comets as the Oort cloud. The need for the Hills cloud hypothesis is intimately...
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    Sun. The cloud is thought to comprise two regions: a disc-shaped inner Oort cloud aligned with the solar ecliptic (also called its Hills cloud) and a spherical...
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    Oort cloud of 20,000–50,000 AU (0.32–0.79 ly), and a doughnut-shaped inner cloud, the Hills cloud, of 2,000–20,000 AU (0.03–0.32 ly). The outer cloud is...
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    Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation, mitigate hail or disperse fog. The usual objective...
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    The Cloud or Bosley Cloud is a prominent hill on the border between Cheshire and Staffordshire a couple of miles west of the Peak District National Park...
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    St. Cloud or Saint Cloud (/ˈseɪnt klaʊd/; French: [sɛ̃ klu]) is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the largest population center in the state's...
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    Clouds Hill is an isolated cottage near Wareham in the county of Dorset in South West England. It is the former home of T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")...
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  • Clouded Hills may refer to: Clouded Hills, a 1929 historical novel by American writer Elizabeth Moorhead The Clouded Hills, a 1980 romance novel by English...
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    (possibly inner Oort cloud) 2012 VP113 (possibly inner Oort cloud) Oort cloud (hypothetical) Hills cloud/inner Oort cloud Outer Oort cloud The Solar System...
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    In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the...
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    Kuiper belt (redirect from Kuiper Cloud)
    together with the members of the scattered disc and any potential Hills cloud or Oort cloud objects, are collectively referred to as trans-Neptunian objects...
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    prevent the wholesale violation of the treaty and the loss of the Black Hills." Red Cloud settled at the agency with his band by the fall of 1873. He soon became...
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    formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary...
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    astronomers consider the sednoids to be inner Oort cloud objects (OCOs), though the inner Oort cloud, or Hills cloud, was originally predicted to lie beyond 2...
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  • the Internet The Cloud (hill), a hill in England The Cloud, a novel by Ray Hammond The Cloud (painting), 1985, by Odd Nerdrum "The Cloud" (poem), 1820,...
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    Cirrus (cloud classification symbol: Ci) is a genus of high cloud made of ice crystals. Cirrus clouds typically appear delicate and wispy with white strands...
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    Lenticular clouds (Latin: Lenticularis lentil-shaped, from lenticula lentil) are stationary clouds that form mostly in the troposphere, typically in parallel...
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    atoms in the "cloud" surrounding Io are ionized and carried along by the Jovian magnetosphere. Unlike the particles in the neutral cloud, these particles...
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    It was formed 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular cloud collapsed, forming the Sun and a protoplanetary disc. The Sun is an ordinary...
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    The list of cloud types groups all cloud genera as high (cirro-, cirrus), middle (alto-), multi-level (nimbo-, cumulo-, cumulus), and low (strato-, stratus)...
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  • Hills Hills cloud a circumstellar disc, interior to the Oort cloud Hills Industries, an Australian diversified manufacturer, best known for the Hills...
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  • Cloud storage is a model of computer data storage in which data, said to be on "the cloud", is stored remotely in logical pools and is accessible to users...
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    A nimbostratus cloud is a multilevel, amorphous, nearly uniform, and often dark-grey cloud that usually produces continuous rain, snow, or sleet, but...
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    formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary...
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    Ubiquitous Comets ☄ Meteoroids Micrometeoroids Cosmic dust Interplanetary dust cloud Trans-Neptunian region Trans-Neptunian objects Kuiper belt Pluto ♇ Moons...
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  • Cloud Atlas is a 2012 epic science fiction film written and directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. Based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, it has...
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    Jack Gilbert Hills (born 15 May 1943) is a theorist of stellar dynamics. He worked on the Oort cloud; the inner part of it, the Hills cloud, was named after...
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    Montserrat's Soufrière Hills volcano has generated many of these deadly pyroclastic flows and surges). The gas and projectiles create a cloud that is denser than...
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    Another Jewish legend claims that as the cloud travelled ahead of the Israelites, it would flatten hills and raise up valleys, creating a level path...
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    The probe photographed pale hills with dark "rivers" running down to a dark plain. Current understanding is that the hills (also referred to as highlands)...
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