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Comet in the Oort Cloud. What is the minimum orbital period of a comet nucleus in the Oort cloud? What is its orbital velocity?

Comet in the Oort Cloud.

What is the minimum orbital period of a comet nucleus in the Oort cloud? What is its orbital velocity? (Hints: Use Kepler's third law. The circumference of a circular orbit = 2πr. The typical Oort cloud object distances from the Sun are in the range from about 10,000 to 100,000 AU.)

Tmin = _________ years.

v = _____________km/yr.

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