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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 - Science@NASA The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune It is home to Pluto and most of the known dwarf planets and some comets
Kuiper Belt - Objects, Location, Facts - Science Notes and Projects 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
Kuiper Belt Objects | What Is Kuiper Belt - Star Walk 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)
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
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
Journey to the Edge: Exploring Our Solar Systems Kuiper Belt The Kuiper Belt, pronounced “KY-per,” is a vast, toroidal region beyond Neptune’s orbit, extending roughly from 30 to 55 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun (1 AU is the distance from Earth to the Sun)