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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 23 June 2020
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