Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

öpik-oort cloud

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: opik-oort -cloud
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Oort Cloud.

Etymology

Named after the Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik, who proposed in 1932 a reservoir of long-period comets in the form of an orbiting cloud at the outermost edge of the Solar System, and the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, who revived this idea in 1950 to resolve a paradox about the origin of comets.

Inflected Forms

the Öpik-Oort Cloud (canonical)

Synonyms

Oort Cloud

Questions

What does öpik-oort cloud mean?: Synonym of Oort Cloud.
Where does öpik-oort cloud come from?: Named after the Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik, who proposed in 1932 a reservoir of long-period comets in the form of an orbiting cloud at the outermost edge of the Solar System, and the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, who revived this idea in 1950 to resolve a paradox about the origin of comets.

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