: 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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These debris disks are formed by collisions between asteroids or comets that generate large amounts of dust and resemble our own solar system where asteroids collect in the inner belt and comets populate the distant Kuiper Belt, according to a statement.
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Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Applying some statistics to the data, the team found the solid nuclei of the exocomets ranged from 1 to 7 km in diameter, in a size distribution similar to that of solar system comets in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies that extends some ways out past Neptune.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2025
The new study is a fascinating look at the distant Kuiper Belt, a region that remains largely unexplored, said Patryk Sofia Lykawka, an associate professor of planetary sciences at Kindai University in Japan.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Just last year, scientists announced the news that New Horizons found the Kuiper Belt—a vast outer zone of hundreds of thousands of small, icy worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune—might extend much farther out than previously thought.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Applying some statistics to the data, the team found the solid nuclei of the exocomets ranged from 1 to 7 km in diameter, in a size distribution similar to that of solar system comets in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies that extends some ways out past Neptune.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2025
The new study is a fascinating look at the distant Kuiper Belt, a region that remains largely unexplored, said Patryk Sofia Lykawka, an associate professor of planetary sciences at Kindai University in Japan.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Just last year, scientists announced the news that New Horizons found the Kuiper Belt—a vast outer zone of hundreds of thousands of small, icy worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune—might extend much farther out than previously thought.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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