- Kuiper belt - Wikipedia
Kuiper was operating on the assumption, common in his time, that Pluto was far more massive than we now know it to be, and had therefore scattered these bodies out toward the Oort cloud or out of the Solar System; there would not be a Kuiper belt today if this were correct
- Kuiper belt | Definition, Location, Size, Facts | Britannica
Kuiper 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
- Kuiper Belt Facts - NASA Science
The Kuiper Belt is an enormous, donut-shaped volume of space in the outer solar system While there are many icy bodies in this region that we broadly refer to as Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) or trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), they're fairly diverse in size, shape, and color
- Kuiper Belt Facts | Kuiper Belt Objects | What Is Kuiper Belt . . .
The Kuiper Belt contains millions of icy bodies believed to be leftovers from the formation of the Solar System Despite the enormous size of the belt, the total mass of all the objects in it equals a few percent of the Earth’s mass (roughly 1-10%, according to current estimates)
- Kuiper Belt - Objects, Location, Facts
The Kuiper belt is a thick ring of dwarf planets, comets, and debris out past the orbit of Neptune The belt contains around one hundred thousand objects that are at least 100 kilometers wide and countless smaller bodies
- What is the Kuiper Belt? A guide to the outer Solar System
The Kuiper Belt is a ring of rocky, icy bodies at the edge of the Solar System A guide to how it was discovered and what we know about it
- New Horizons: About the Kuiper Belt
We call this swarm of bodies the Kuiper Belt, in honor of Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who speculated about the existence of small bodies beyond Neptune in the 1950s
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