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The discovery of a second resident in a region of the Solar System called the inner Oort cloud prompts fresh thinking about this no-man's-land between the giant planets and the reservoir of comets of long orbital period. See Letter p.471

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Figure 1: The inner Oort cloud.

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  1. Megan E. Schwamb is at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.,

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Schwamb, M. Stranded in no-man's-land. Nature 507, 435–436 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/507435a

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