: a band of small celestial bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune from which many short-period comets are believed to originate compare oort cloud
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Comets, the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud Planetary Data System.
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Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
The results of Subaru's search of the outer Kuiper Belt were published on Thursday in two papers (published here and here) in the Planetary Science Journal.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
More recently, two astronomers in Japan proposed that a different planet, instead of Planet 9, might be lurking in the Kuiper Belt.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
Experts suspect the star sports a ring of dust around its circumference, like the Solar System's icy Kuiper Belt.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
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Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
The results of Subaru's search of the outer Kuiper Belt were published on Thursday in two papers (published here and here) in the Planetary Science Journal.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
More recently, two astronomers in Japan proposed that a different planet, instead of Planet 9, might be lurking in the Kuiper Belt.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
Experts suspect the star sports a ring of dust around its circumference, like the Solar System's icy Kuiper Belt.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
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