Highly Eccentric Orbit


Most single-appearance comets enter the inner Solar System directly from the Oort Cloud. Estimate how many years it takes a comet to make this journey. Assume that in the Oort Cloud, $35000$ AU from the Sun, the comet was at aphelion.

Source: IOAA


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