The Kuiper belt (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU)...
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A classical Kuiper belt object, also called a cubewano (/ˌkjuːbiːˈwʌnoʊ/ "QB1-o"), is a low-eccentricity Kuiper belt object (KBO) that orbits beyond Neptune...
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Solar System (section Kuiper belt)
clouds. Some of these bodies are in the asteroid belt (between Mars's and Jupiter's orbit) and the Kuiper belt (just outside Neptune's orbit). Six planets...
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Trans-Neptunian object (redirect from Kuiper belt and Oort cloud)
TNOs are further divided into the classical and resonant objects of the Kuiper belt, the scattered disc and detached objects with the sednoids being the...
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called the Kuiper belt, but its outer limits reach much farther away from the Sun and farther above and below the ecliptic than the Kuiper belt proper. Because...
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New Horizons (section Kuiper belt object mission)
2015, and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which became a mission to 486958...
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Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest...
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the eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science. Kuiper, the son of a tailor in the...
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486958 Arrokoth (redirect from Ultima Thule (kuiper belt object))
formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive object in the Solar...
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structure of the Kuiper belt. Neptune's orbit has a profound impact on the region directly beyond it, known as the Kuiper belt. The Kuiper belt is a ring of...
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and Michael Brown) for 2012 "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding...
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Since the year 2000, a number of Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) with diameters of between 500 and 1500 km (more than half that of Pluto) have been discovered...
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the asteroid belt Orcus 39.4 AU, Trans-Neptunian-Kuiper belt object Pluto 39 AU, Kuiper belt (a planet until 2006) Haumea 43 AU, Kuiper belt Makemake 45...
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the migrating Neptune formed the current Kuiper belt and scattered disc. This scenario explains the Kuiper belt's and scattered disc's present low mass....
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Dwarf planet (redirect from Belt planet)
find objects in the same region of space as Pluto (now known as the Kuiper belt), and some even farther away. Many of these shared several of Pluto's...
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Gonggong (dwarf planet) (redirect from Gonggong (Kuiper belt object))
characteristic features of water ice, a substance often found on large Kuiper belt objects. The presence of water ice on the surface of Gonggong implies...
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Nice model (section Formation of the Kuiper belt)
the existence of populations of small Solar System bodies such as the Kuiper belt, the Neptune and Jupiter trojans, and the numerous resonant trans-Neptunian...
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Jumping-Jupiter scenario (section Kuiper belt)
during which hot classical Kuiper belt objects were captured, and the retention of a primordial cold classical Kuiper belt, but not the jump in Jupiter's...
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possible trans-Neptunian planet has revolved around the so-called "Kuiper cliff". The Kuiper belt terminates suddenly at a distance of 48 AU (7.2 billion km;...
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part of the asteroid belt; and Pluto, later found to be the largest member of the collection of icy bodies known as the Kuiper belt. The discovery of other...
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for stellar contact binaries. An example of a contact binary is the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth, which was imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft...
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Cassini probe in 2004, may be a captured centaur that originated in the Kuiper belt. In addition, the Hubble Space Telescope has gleaned some information...
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internet connectivity. The name Kuiper was a company codename for the project inspired by the outer Solar System's Kuiper belt. The Federal Communications...
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Oort cloud is more than a thousand times as distant from the Sun as the Kuiper belt, the scattered disc and the detached objects—three nearer reservoirs...
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Tholin (section Kuiper belt objects and Centaurs)
interstellar medium." The surfaces of comets, centaurs, and many icy moons and Kuiper-belt objects in the outer Solar System are rich in deposits of tholins. Titan...
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15760 Albion (category Cold classical Kuiper belt objects)
shortly hailed as the tenth planet by the press. It is a "cold" classical Kuiper belt object and gave rise to the name cubewano for this kind of object, after...
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potentially several millions of years. Short-period comets originate in the Kuiper belt or its associated scattered disc, which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune...
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minor body composed of rock, dust, and ice. The Kuiper belt, sometimes called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets...
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Phases of ice (section Kuiper Belt objects)
With radiation equilibrium temperatures of 40–50 K, the objects in the Kuiper Belt are expected to have amorphous water ice. While water ice has been observed...
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Following guidelines established at the time by the IAU that classical Kuiper belt objects be given names of mythological beings associated with creation...
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