Kuiper Belt
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The Kuiper Belt is a region of the solar system beyond the planets that contains many small, icy bodies. It matters because studying these ancient remnants helps scientists understand how our solar system formed and evolved.
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Known objects in the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune. (Scale in AU. Distances but not sizes are to scale; the yellow disk is about the size of Mars's orbit. Epoch as of January 2015.) Sun
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