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  1. science.nasa.gov › solar-system › kuiper-beltKuiper Belt - NASA Science

    Kuiper Belt Overview The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies extending far beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is home to Pluto and Arrokoth. Both worlds were visited by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Kuiper_beltKuiper belt - Wikipedia

    Being distant from the Sun and major planets, Kuiper belt objects are thought to be relatively unaffected by the processes that have shaped and altered other Solar System objects; thus, determining their composition would provide substantial information on the makeup of the earliest Solar System.

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  4. science.nasa.gov › solar-system › kuiper-belt10 Things to Know About the Kuiper Belt - NASA Science

    Dec 14, 2018 · The Kuiper Belt is one of the largest structures in our solar system — others being the Oort Cloud, the heliosphere and the magnetosphere of Jupiter. Its overall shape is like a puffed-up disk, or donut. Its inner edge begins at the orbit of Neptune, at about 30 AU from the Sun. (1 AU, or astronomical unit, is the distance from Earth to the Sun.)

  5. science.nasa.gov › solar-system › kuiper-beltKuiper Belt: Facts - NASA Science

    The Kuiper Belt is an enormous, donut-shaped volume of space in the outer solar system. While there are many icy bodies in this region that we broadly refer to as Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) or trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), they're fairly diverse in size, shape, and color.

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  7. spaceplace.nasa.gov › kuiper-belt › enWhat Is the Kuiper Belt? - NASA Space Place

    Jun 13, 2024 · It is orbited by eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. But what’s past Neptune? Just outside of Neptune’s orbit is a ring of icy bodies. We call it the Kuiper Belt. It’s pronounced ky-purr. This is where you’ll find dwarf planet Pluto.

  8. www.space.com › 16144-kuiper-belt-objectsWhat is the Kuiper Belt? | Space

    Mar 2, 2023 · The Kuiper Belt is a cold donut-shaped region of icy objects that circles the outer solar system beyond the orbit of the eighth planet from the sun, Neptune.

  9. www.britannica.com › place › Kuiper-beltKuiper belt | Definition, Location, Size, & Facts | Britannica

    Jun 26, 2024 · Kuiper belt, flat ring of icy small bodies that revolve around the Sun beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune. It comprises hundreds of millions of objects whose orbits lie close to the plane of the solar system.