Talk:Oort limit

I suggest moving the article to Oort_limit. VoidLurker 11:24, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Wrong topic

This article is about completely the wrong thing. The Oort limit has nothing to do with the physical dimensions of the Oort cloud. (Both the Oort cloud and the Oort limit are topics in astrophysics named after Jan Oort, but they are otherwise unrelated.) The Oort limit is a way of measuring the mass density of the Milky Way galactic disk by measuring the distributions of positions and relatively speeds of stars in our local neighborhood of the galaxy. This article should either be deleted or changed to describe the actual Oort limit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.252.70.97 (talk) 02:35, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

• I know nothing about either topic, but Google scholar search for "Oort limit" tends to support the complaint by 129.252.70.97. The source for the current info is an archived version part of the website of one David Darling, who did get a PhD in astronomy but seems to be self published; also not inspiring confidence is that the relevant part of his website has since been deleted. This Wikipedia article originally gave two definitions, but the second definition (which seems closer to the 129.252.70.97 one) was deleted in 2015 by Exoplanetaryscience and again in 2018 by Donner60. jnestorius^(talk) 05:35, 6 March 2026 (UTC)