: 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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Astronomers have been searching the Kuiper Belt for a hidden planet for more than a decade.
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
New Horizons will exit the Kuiper Belt in 2028 or 2029 and approach the solar system's edge.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
The New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, returning stunning images and other data about the Kuiper Belt Object Formerly Known as a Planet.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2024
Tens of thousands of such robots would slowly work their way through rocks in our solar system’s Main Asteroid Belt and eventually the outer solar system —- including the icy objects of the Kuiper Belt, and the far distant Oort Cloud of comets, says Cockell.
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—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
New Horizons will exit the Kuiper Belt in 2028 or 2029 and approach the solar system's edge.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
The New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, returning stunning images and other data about the Kuiper Belt Object Formerly Known as a Planet.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2024
Tens of thousands of such robots would slowly work their way through rocks in our solar system’s Main Asteroid Belt and eventually the outer solar system —- including the icy objects of the Kuiper Belt, and the far distant Oort Cloud of comets, says Cockell.
Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
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