How to Use Kuiper Belt in a Sentence
Kuiper Belt
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The scale of the outer belt is around twice that of our solar system's Kuiper Belt.
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Julia Musto,
Fox News,
9 May 2023
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The outer belt is around twice the size of the Kuiper Belt, which is a ring of icy objects, mostly frozen methane and ammonia, around the Sun.
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Eden Villalovas,
Washington Examiner,
8 May 2023
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Studies suggest that smaller Kuiper Belt objects could have formed in just a few hundred or thousand years.
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Eric Betz,
Discover Magazine,
23 June 2020
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New Horizons is going in search of potential new Kuiper Belt objects to barnstorm.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
29 Apr. 2022
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So just like Pluto, Triton is geologically active and may be an ocean world, as well as being a fellow Kuiper Belt object.
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Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
9 Apr. 2022
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Previous work assumed Pluto originated from cold and icy rock clumping together in the distant Kuiper Belt, the ring of objects beyond Neptune's orbit.
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Charles Q. Choi,
Scientific American,
23 June 2020
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