The Kuiper Belt is a vast disc of small icy bodies in the outer solar system extending from Neptune's orbit at about 30 AU out to roughly 50 AU, home to most of the solar system's known dwarf planets, including Pluto, Haumea and Makemake, along with thousands of smaller frozen worlds.
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Discovery YearYear the first confirmed Kuiper Belt object beyond Pluto, 1992 QB1, was observed by David Jewitt and Jane Luu, confirming the belt's existence. Connections
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Wikimedia FoundationEntity description, kuiper-belt catalogue classificationQuote, Entity description, kuiper-belt catalogue classification
The Kuiper Belt is a vast disc of small icy bodies in the outer solar system extending from Neptune's orbit at about 30 AU out to roughly 50 AU, home to most of the solar system's known dwarf planets, including Pluto, Haumea and Makemake, along with thousands of smaller frozen worlds.
Kuiper belt (Wikipedia)
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It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger-20 times as wide and 20-200 times as massive.
In Group: Solar System Belts, Clouds and Small Trans-Neptunian Bodies, Lead: kind of object
The Kuiper belt ( ) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System
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