Kuiper Belt

Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. Neptune's gravitational imprint on the dust is always detectable in new simulations of how this dust moves through the solar system. By ramping up the collision rate, the simulations show how the distant view of the solar system might have changed over its history.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Pluto
• Kuiper
• Belt
• Neptune
• Dust

[D3manm0der]

i meant kuiper



[D3manm0der]

so the luiper belt is where the comets are made?

[Al3xX420]

@MellowCruisin It was the only kuiper belt object known for decades. The kuiper belt is a relatively knew discovery. Pluto was demoted only a few years ago right?

[MellowCruisin]

So why was pluto picked out of every object in the kuiper belt and chosen as a planet? Was is just the size.... or atmosphere or what

[thedeeliciousplum]

Thank you for sharing this.

[tnguyen318]

There are Two belts in our Solar system. The Kuiper Belt surrounds our entire outer Solar System. Its made up of asteroids. The Asteroid belt sits just outside the inner 4 planets between Mars and Jupiter. Its also made of asteroids.

[RainyDay1992]

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