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No spacecraft has ever traveled to the Kuiper Belt, but NASA's New Horizons mission, planned to arrive at Pluto in 2015, might be able to penetrate farther into the Kuiper Belt to study one of these mysterious objects.
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solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=KBOs
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The Kuiper Belt and; The Oort Cloud ... The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune extending roughly from 30 to 50 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. It is now considered to be the source of the short-period comets.
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www.nineplanets.org/kboc.html
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Some astronomers had a theory about the Kuiper Belt in the early 1900s. One of them was Gerard Kuiper. In 1951, Kuiper said that some kinds of comets might come from the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt was named after Gerard Kuiper.
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www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/comets/Kuiper_belt.html
www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/comets/Kuiper_belt.html
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Astronomers from Lowell Observatory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory have discovered an icy planetary body orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt roughly equal in size to Pluto’s moon Charon.
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www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0110.html
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The Kuiper Belt in the outer regions of our Solar System. ... The Discovery of the Kuiper Belt; The Kuiper belt was discovered in 1992. The Kuiper belt was named for the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper, who predicted its existence in 1951. Kuiper Belt Links; The Kuiper Belt from the University of Michigan ;
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www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/solarsyste...
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/solarsystem/kuiper.shtml
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ring of orbiting celestial bodies: a ring of small astronomical objects orbiting through the outer solar system, beyond the farthest planets, Neptune and Pluto. It is believed that the Kuiper belt is a source of comets.
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encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861677796/Kuiper_belt.html
encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861677796/Kuiper_belt.html
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JPL, CalTech, NASA; Larger illustration. The Edgeworth-Kuiper ; Belt includes Pluto and other icy objects beyond the orbit of ; Neptune.
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www.solstation.com/stars/kuiper.htm
www.solstation.com/stars/kuiper.htm
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STO covers Space from Earth to the Edge of the Universe ... It seems to be in the Kuiper Belt swarm of icy objects orbiting the Sun way beyond Neptune. Astronomers think they are remnants of ancient materials that formed the Solar System. It is 97 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun.
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www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/KuiperBelt/Quaoar.html
www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/KuiperBelt/Quaoar.html
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