How to Use Kuiper Belt in a Sentence

Kuiper Belt

noun

• 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
• The scale of the outer belt is around twice that of our solar system's Kuiper Belt.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 May 2023
• 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.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 8 May 2023
• The New Horizons mission, which launched in 2006, is currently flying through the Kuiper Belt.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• Studies suggest that smaller Kuiper Belt objects could have formed in just a few hundred or thousand years.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2020
• New Horizons is going in search of potential new Kuiper Belt objects to barnstorm.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Apr. 2022
• This device has a camera and a spectrograph, and observes a kind of light from distant galaxies, coalescing stars, comets and objects in the Kuiper Belt.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
• So just like Pluto, Triton is geologically active and may be an ocean world, as well as being a fellow Kuiper Belt object.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
• 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.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 23 June 2020
• Not all astronomers agree that New Horizons’ remaining Kuiper Belt investigations will be worthwhile, however.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024