STRANGENESS IN THE NUCLEON ON THE LIGHT-CONE

Strange matrix elements of the nucleon are calculated within the light -cone formulation of the meson cloud model. The Q(2) dependence of the strange vector and axial vector form factors is computed, and the str angeness radius and magnetic moment extracted, both of which are found to be very small and slightly negative. Within the same framework one finds a small but nonzero excess of the antistrange distribution over the strange at large x. Kaon loops are unlikely, however, to be the s ource of a large polarized strange quark distribution.