: 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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More recently, two astronomers in Japan proposed that a different planet, instead of Planet 9, might be lurking in the Kuiper Belt.
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Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
Experts suspect the star sports a ring of dust around its circumference, like the Solar System's icy Kuiper Belt.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
But its lonely location in the outer Kuiper Belt has kept Arrokoth intact, essentially a fossil from the early days of Solar System formation.
—Diane Hope, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
The New Horizons mission, which launched in 2006, is currently flying through the Kuiper Belt.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
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Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
Experts suspect the star sports a ring of dust around its circumference, like the Solar System's icy Kuiper Belt.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
But its lonely location in the outer Kuiper Belt has kept Arrokoth intact, essentially a fossil from the early days of Solar System formation.
—Diane Hope, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
The New Horizons mission, which launched in 2006, is currently flying through the Kuiper Belt.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
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