Kuiper Belt

noun

Kui·per Belt ˈkī-pər-

: 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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By being able to compare these planetesimal belts around other stars with our own Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt, which is a frontier currently being explored by pioneers such as the New Horizons mission, astronomers can uncover the secrets that these frozen realms have kept hidden. —

Keith Cooper, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025 Formed from the remnants of the birth of the Solar System, the Kuiper Belt is basically a band of frozen leftovers. —

Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025 The team behind this research thinks that two frigid worlds located in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies located far from the sun at the edge of the solar system, collided together billions of years ago. —

Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Jan. 2025 Jupiter-family comets, named for their gravitational ties to Jupiter, are icy relics of the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune. —

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