How far is the inner boundary of the Oort Cloud (OC) compared to the starting distance of the Kuiper Belt (KB)?

Answer

The OC inner edge begins many times farther out than the KB outer reaches.

A profound spatial difference exists between the two regions, marked by their respective inner boundaries. The Kuiper Belt starts immediately beyond Neptune's orbit, around 30 AU from the Sun. The Oort Cloud, conversely, is a much more distant feature. Its hypothesized inner boundary is placed significantly farther out, starting somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 AU from the Sun. This spatial disparity is immense; an object in the Kuiper Belt at 50 AU is relatively accessible compared to the Oort Cloud, whose inner edge is thousands of AU distant, illustrating that the two reservoirs occupy entirely separate neighborhoods of the solar system.

How far is the inner boundary of the Oort Cloud (OC) compared to the starting distance of the Kuiper Belt (KB)?

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