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Bookmark or Share- Kuiper Belt: Facts - NASA ScienceThe Kuiper Belt is a large region in the cold, outer reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune. It’s sometimes called the “third zone” of the solar system. Astronomers think there are millions of small, icy objects in this region – including hundreds of thousands that are larger than 60 miles (100 […]
- Kuiper belt | Definition, Location, Size, & Facts | BritannicaKuiper belt, flat ring of icy small bodies that revolve around the Sun beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune. It comprises hundreds of millions of objects whose orbits lie close to the plane of the solar system. The Kuiper belt is thought to be the source of most of the observed short-period comets.
- Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud - NASA Solar System ExplorationMore than 1,300 KBOs have been iden-tified since 1992. They are sometimes called Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt objects or transneptunian objects — TNOs for short. The Kuiper Belt should not be confused with the Oort Cloud, which is a thousand times more distant.
- What Is the Kuiper Belt? - NASA Space PlaceThe Short Answer: The Kuiper Belt is a ring of icy bodies just outside of Neptune’s orbit. Pluto is the most famous Kuiper Belt Object. The Sun is at the center of our solar system. It is orbited by eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. But what’s past Neptune?
- Kuiper belt - WikipediaThe Kuiper belt (/ ˈ k aɪ p ər / KY-pər) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive.
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