Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · 28/07/2026How much of the native Oort cloud is lost in this process leading essentially to an exchange of Oort clouds? Or does this not really happen in these types of encounters? (Should probably ready the paper first though, but couldn't wait to ask, sorry) 111 0
Sean Raymond (planetplanet.net) @planetplanet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026There is definitely some erosion of the Oort cloud during both encounters and generally while stars putz around in the Galaxy -- see for example Kaib et al ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011Icar... Hanse et al ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRA...ui.adsabs.harvard.edu 110 0
